{"id":1844,"date":"2005-05-22T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/church-mouse.lanuera.com\/IV\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2005-05-22T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T08:13:00","slug":"our-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Our Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Dear Ted our Father,<br \/>\nwho believed that each of us carries a piece of heaven,<br \/>\nprecious is your name for those who loved you<br \/>\nbecause you showed us a living kingdom<br \/>\nhere on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You understood how critical it is to have a piece of bread at the end of each day,  especially for those of us who know hunger and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>How clearly you insisted that we must reconcile with those on whom this nation trespassed with blood, before we can learn to forgive those who trespass against us.<\/p>\n<p>In life you steered us away from the ever present temptation of believing<br \/>\nthat white is the colour of purity,<br \/>\nthat institutions are the seat of ultimate power,<br \/>\nthat things, big and small, will eventually take care of themselves without our intervention,<br \/>\nsince it is so easy to feel insignificant in this universe and its unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>May you now protect us more than ever,<br \/>\nfrom the evil of indifference,<br \/>\nfrom the numbing of our conscience,<br \/>\nas conscience remained the sacred place where you kept your individual spirit ALIVE!<\/p>\n<p>AMEN<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Elio Gatti May 2005<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ted our Father,<br \/> who believed that each of us carries a piece of heaven,<br \/> precious is your name for those who loved you<br \/> because you showed us a living kingdom<br \/> here on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You understood how critical it is to have a piece of bread at the end of each day, especially for those of us who know hunger and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>How clearly you insisted that we must reconcile with those on whom this nation trespassed with blood, before we can learn to forgive those who trespass against us.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1844\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}