{"id":8656,"date":"2020-08-29T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T03:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2020-08-29T23:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T03:23:49","slug":"taking-up-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8656","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Jersak-6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans tortured and crucified Jesus.  <em>Abba<\/em> didn&#8217;t.  For Jesus, taking up his cross describes his self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_way.html\">A More Christlike Way<\/a><\/em>, p. 148<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 23, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans tortured and crucified Jesus. Abba didn&#8217;t. For Jesus, taking up his cross describes his self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love response. &#8212; Bradley Jersak, A More Christlike Way, p. 148 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 23, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","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=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}