{"id":1303,"date":"2006-03-01T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2006-03-01T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T22:27:37","slug":"ash-wednesday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>..And thus we rust Life&#8217;s iron chain<br \/>\nDegraded and alone:<br \/>\nAnd some men curse, and some men weep,<br \/>\nAnd some men make no moan:<br \/>\nBut God&#8217;s eternal Laws and kind<br \/>\nAnd break the heart of stone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And every human heart that breaks,<br \/>\nIn prison-cell or yard,<br \/>\nIs as that broken box that gave<br \/>\nIts treasure to the Lord,<br \/>\nAnd filled the leper&#8217;s house<br \/>\nWith the scent of costliest nard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ah! happy those whose hearts can break<br \/>\nAnd peace of pardon win!<br \/>\nHow else may man make straight his plan<br \/>\nAnd cleanse his soul from Sin?<br \/>\nHow else but through a broken heart<br \/>\nMay Lord Christ enter in?<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballad of Reading Gaol ..And thus we rust Life&#8217;s iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God&#8217;s eternal Laws and kind And break the heart of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-l1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}