{"id":133727,"date":"2024-12-25T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133727"},"modified":"2024-12-25T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:51:46","slug":"bono-on-christmas-it-brings-me-to-my-knees-literally-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133727","title":{"rendered":"Bono on Christmas&#8211;&#8216;it brings me to my knees, literally&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<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>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><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<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.&#8217;<br><br>&#8211; Isaiah 9.6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8kwmEkjCC\">pic.twitter.com\/o8kwmEkjCC<\/a><\/p>\u2014 The Church of England (@churchofengland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland\/status\/1871813171272421620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <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=133727\">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":[575,162,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133727","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=133727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133732,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133727\/revisions\/133732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}