{"id":17040,"date":"2010-01-02T01:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_tasmanias_christmas_message\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T01:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:37:50","slug":"the_bishop_of_tasmanias_christmas_message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17040","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Tasmania&#39;s Christmas Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, coming to a bus near you is a Tasmanian version of the UK bus ads, \u201d\u02dcThere\u2019s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While Christians are enjoying life and celebrating Christmas precisely because there is a loving God [the Christmas message is \u201d\u02dcEmmanuel, God with us\u2019]; some atheists are worrying that there is probably no God.<\/p>\n<p>This is sad.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad because life is to be enjoyed. How do we know this? Jesus Christ of Christmas fame told us, \u201d\u02dcI came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance \u201d\u201c to the full, till it overflows.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/12\/22\/my-christmas-message\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, coming to a bus near you is a Tasmanian version of the UK bus ads, \u201d\u02dcThere\u2019s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy life.\u2019 While Christians are enjoying life and celebrating Christmas precisely because there is a loving<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17040\">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":[36,48,395,74,575,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040","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=17040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}