{"id":477,"date":"2025-04-23T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=477"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:40:50","slug":"anastasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh golly, it&#8217;s been almost two months since I posted.<br \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s an Easter one. Comments below the poem if you want any more clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/poem-ANASTASIA.png?resize=254%2C766&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-478\" style=\"width:313px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/poem-ANASTASIA.png?w=254&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/poem-ANASTASIA.png?resize=99%2C300&amp;ssl=1 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was sitting in Faith Manhattan three days ago listening to Andrew Johnston give an Easter sermon from Luke 24, about the &#8220;wondering&#8221; related to it in verses 4 and 12. I was thinking how encountering the truth of the resurrection changes everything &#8230; and then had an idea to personify that (the Greek is <em>anastasis<\/em>&#8211;lit. &#8220;standing up&#8221;).<br><br>I enjoy it. Hope you do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh golly, it&#8217;s been almost two months since I posted. Here&#8217;s an Easter one. Comments below the poem if you want any more clues. I was sitting in Faith Manhattan three days ago listening to Andrew Johnston give an Easter sermon from Luke 24, about the &#8220;wondering&#8221; related to it in verses 4 and 12. [&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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","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\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}