{"id":656,"date":"2007-04-08T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T23:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/easter_thoughts.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","slug":"easter_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/easter_thoughts.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Easter Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, at the close of this Easter Sunday, home from a weekend trip to Mom and Dad&#8217;s, I encourage you to go read Codepoke&#8217;s (yes, thank goodness, he&#8217;s blogging again) <a href=\"http:\/\/familyhoodchurch.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/easter-thanks.html\">Easter Thanks<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the quote that got me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He clothed Himself with the body of my struggles, and labored under the needs that overwhelm me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  Praise God.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s short, but powerful, so go give it a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, at the close of this Easter Sunday, home from a weekend trip to Mom and Dad&#8217;s, I encourage you to go read Codepoke&#8217;s (yes, thank goodness, he&#8217;s blogging again)<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/easter_thoughts.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easter Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Easter Thoughts - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/easter_thoughts.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Easter Thoughts - 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