{"id":2623,"date":"2012-10-17T04:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2012-10-17T04:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:51:59","slug":"writing-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Faith: Keep the Fire Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7d\/Candleburning.jpg\/170px-Candleburning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"322\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 170px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 170\/322;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7d\/Candleburning.jpg\/170px-Candleburning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"322\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> Hermann Hesse<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">When we give in to the voices of our souls, pick up our pens, and write, we step into the world of faith and shadows, seeking illumination. Sometimes we find it. Other times we tear the paper, and begin again. But the journey of pen along the blank white sheet leads us further into ourselves. A journey worth making.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hermann Hesse When we give in to the voices of our souls, pick up our pens, and write, we step into the world of faith and shadows, seeking illumination. Sometimes we find it. Other &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2623\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing and Faith: Keep the Fire Burning<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[179,6],"tags":[399,361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}