{"id":144461,"date":"2026-04-07T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144461"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:15:19","slug":"john-donne-easter-faith-that-sustains-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144461","title":{"rendered":"John Donne\u2013Easter Faith that Sustains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I had a Son in Court, or married a daughter into a plentifull Fortune, I were satisfied for that son or that daughter. Shall I not be so, when the King of Heaven hath taken that sone to himselfe, and married himselfe to that daughter, for ever? I spend none of my Faith, I exercise none of my Hope, in this, that I shall have my dead raised to life againe.&nbsp;<strong>This is the faith that sustains me<\/strong>, when I lose by the death of others, and we, are now all in one Church, and at the resurrection, shall be all in one Quire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013John Donne (1572-1631) [my emphasis]<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy easter everyone&#8230;<br><br>Caravaggio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvEWthyHY5\">pic.twitter.com\/zvEWthyHY5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ahmet Duran Herg\u00fcn (@AhmetDuranHergn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AhmetDuranHergn\/status\/2040643078814302362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had a Son in Court, or married a daughter into a plentifull Fortune, I were satisfied for that son or that daughter. Shall I not be so, when the King of Heaven hath taken that sone to himselfe,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144461\">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":[186,324,571,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-easter","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144461","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=144461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144463,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144461\/revisions\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}