{"id":9655,"date":"2026-02-21T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:00:49","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9655","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Recker2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Recker2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Recker2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Recker2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jesus is never the one telling people they are lost.  Jesus is always the one welcoming them home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian Recker, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hell_bent.html\">Hell Bent<\/a><\/em>, p. 56<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is never the one telling people they are lost. Jesus is always the one welcoming them home. &#8212; Brian Recker, Hell Bent, p. 56 Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-jesus","category-love","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}