{"id":145,"date":"2021-08-09T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-08-09T05:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:19:09","slug":"invitation-to-a-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to a Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey. Just got back from the Ichthus trip to East Africa &#8230; what a great trip for so many reasons. I&#8217;ve been feeling poemish (I suppose I should say poetic, but I sure do love inventing words) lately, and I wrote like 10 of them over the course of the trip. I like several of them in particular, but I think this one&#8217;s my favorite of them all. It came after the man who was leading our morning devotional time read John 1 as part of that day&#8217;s reflection and I was thinking about animals, there and throughout.<br><br>Super cool that just a few days later I was actually seeing lions on a safari! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/poem-INVITATION-TO-A-KINGDOM.png?resize=409%2C256\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\" width=\"409\" height=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey. Just got back from the Ichthus trip to East Africa &#8230; what a great trip for so many reasons. I&#8217;ve been feeling poemish (I suppose I should say poetic, but I sure do love inventing words) lately, and I wrote like 10 of them over the course of the trip. I like several of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}