{"id":117552,"date":"2022-12-25T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117552"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:22:22","slug":"bono-on-christmas-it-brings-me-to-my-knees-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117552","title":{"rendered":"Bono on Christmas&#8211;&#8216;it brings me to my knees, literally&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8216;The idea that there\u2019s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in %$#$ and straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It\u2019s the thing that makes me a believer, although it didn\u2019t dawn on me for many years.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Bono as quoted in Cathleen Falsani, The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), p.10, also cited by yours truly in yesterday&#8217;s sermon<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Merry Christmas to all! &#x1f384;<\/p>\n<p>This timely artwork depicts a vibrant nativity scene full of movement and crowded with people, with the \u2018Lamb of God\u2019 seen in the immediate foreground.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f3a8;: The Adoration of the Magi, Franz von Rohden <br \/>oil on canvas, Rome 1851<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SnowPlaceLikeUshaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SnowPlaceLikeUshaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3DAm5v2fy\">pic.twitter.com\/K3DAm5v2fy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ushaw Historic House, Chapels &amp; Gardens (@ushawdurham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ushawdurham\/status\/1606892495694077952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The idea that there\u2019s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117552\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,575,132,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-christmas","category-music","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117555,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117552\/revisions\/117555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}