{"id":9912,"date":"2008-12-02T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_amazing_jean_vanier_loving_the_outcasts\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:00:17","slug":"the_amazing_jean_vanier_loving_the_outcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9912","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Jean Vanier: Loving the outcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanier was in Durham partly to promote his new book, Living Gently in a Violent World, co-authored with Duke Divinity professor of theological ethics Stanley Hauerwas.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Vanier&#8217;s message makes the connection between loving the people whom society has cast aside as unlovable and the struggle to create a more peaceful world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fundamental principle of peace is a belief that each person is important,&#8221; Vanier writes in Living Gently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People with disabilities remain the most oppressed people of this world,&#8221; said Vanier, a tall man with a voice so soft it is often hard to hear. &#8220;Many feel that they are not entirely human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/gyrobase\/Content?oid=oid%3A269223\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanier was in Durham partly to promote his new book, Living Gently in a Violent World, co-authored with Duke Divinity professor of theological ethics Stanley Hauerwas. Much of Vanier&#8217;s message makes the connection between loving the people whom society has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9912\">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":[177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","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=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}