{"id":2247,"date":"2011-11-26T20:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2011-11-26T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:51:32","slug":"the-fathers-unfairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"The Father&#8217;s Unfairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father redefines fairness.  It&#8217;s not that his father hasn&#8217;t been fair with him; it&#8217;s that his father never set out to be fair in the first place.  Grace and generosity aren&#8217;t fair; that&#8217;s their very essence.  The father sees the younger brother&#8217;s return as one more occasion to practice <em>unfairness<\/em>.  The younger son doesn&#8217;t deserve a party &#8212; that&#8217;s the point of the party.  That&#8217;s how things work in the father&#8217;s world.  Profound unfairness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rob Bell, <em>Love Wins<\/em>, p. 168<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father redefines fairness. It&#8217;s not that his father hasn&#8217;t been fair with him; it&#8217;s that his father never set out to be fair in the first place. Grace and generosity aren&#8217;t fair; that&#8217;s their very essence. The father sees the younger brother&#8217;s return as one more occasion to practice unfairness. The younger son doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}