{"id":346,"date":"2023-12-05T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:12:40","slug":"hidden-smiles-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Smiles Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One night the sky was looking angry and (I can&#8217;t remember why&#8211;some event? Planned firepit? Not sure) I didn&#8217;t want that so I sorta wished\/prayed\/gazed at it and, interestingly, it like changed in about 30 seconds. Which was good that night. But it got me thinking.<br><br>I got the title from the title of a book by John Piper (<em>The Hidden Smile of God<\/em>) I read about 20 years ago, which in turn came from a line in a poem by William Cowper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/poem-HIDDEN-SMILES-INDEED.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347\" style=\"width:375px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night the sky was looking angry and (I can&#8217;t remember why&#8211;some event? Planned firepit? Not sure) I didn&#8217;t want that so I sorta wished\/prayed\/gazed at it and, interestingly, it like changed in about 30 seconds. Which was good that night. But it got me thinking. I got the title from the title of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}