{"id":285,"date":"2023-04-04T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=285"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:02:20","slug":"holy-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John 19:31 NIV says of the day between Good Friday and Easter, <em>&#8220;The next day was to be a special Sabbath.&#8221;<\/em> Literally it reads <em>&#8220;For the day of that Sabbath was great.&#8221;<\/em> The concept of &#8220;Silent Saturday&#8221; or &#8220;Sad Saturday&#8221; (or just Sad-urday if you prefer lol), with all of its agony, being a &#8220;great&#8221; day grabbed my poetic attention and so I wrote this.<br><br>May your Holy Week be one where the living Christ draws closer to each and every one of you, and in and to your gatherings and communities if that applies!<br><\/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\/2023\/04\/poem-HOLY-SATURDAY.png?resize=354%2C837&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" width=\"354\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/poem-HOLY-SATURDAY.png?w=268&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/poem-HOLY-SATURDAY.png?resize=127%2C300&amp;ssl=1 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 19:31 NIV says of the day between Good Friday and Easter, &#8220;The next day was to be a special Sabbath.&#8221; Literally it reads &#8220;For the day of that Sabbath was great.&#8221; The concept of &#8220;Silent Saturday&#8221; or &#8220;Sad Saturday&#8221; (or just Sad-urday if you prefer lol), with all of its agony, being a &#8220;great&#8221; [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","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\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}