{"id":534,"date":"2026-02-04T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=534"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:36:35","slug":"only-god-knows-i-identity-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Only God Knows I (Identity II)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is identity?<br>How do being and doing relate?<br>And how does sin play in? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Are<\/span> we sinners&#8211;saints&#8211;both?<br>And so on.<br><br>Thanks for reading. Your thoughts on all these questions (above and in the poem) or anything else that stands out to you are welcome&#8211;john@ichthusmhk.org!<br><br><em>(Oh, and yes, the title is a shout out to a song I find very poignant by one Mr. Kid Rock.)<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poem-ONLY-GOD-KNOWS-I.png?resize=243%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535\" style=\"width:325px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poem-ONLY-GOD-KNOWS-I.png?w=243&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poem-ONLY-GOD-KNOWS-I.png?resize=156%2C300&amp;ssl=1 156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is identity?How do being and doing relate?And how does sin play in? Are we sinners&#8211;saints&#8211;both?And so on. Thanks for reading. Your thoughts on all these questions (above and in the poem) or anything else that stands out to you are welcome&#8211;john@ichthusmhk.org! (Oh, and yes, the title is a shout out to a song I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}