{"id":189,"date":"2025-05-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-04-29T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:19:48","slug":"life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/life\/","title":{"rendered":"Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark-560x336.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-05-19-DSC_0772-wildflowers-TroutPark.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Spring wildflowers in Trout Park, an Illinois nature preserve area in Elgin, Ill. <\/em><br><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>\u201cTo the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><br>\u2013 Revelation 21:6b (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Water symbolizes life, in this scripture. <br>What symbols of life are most meaningful for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.\u201d \u2013 Revelation 21:6b (NRSVue) Activity Water symbolizes life, in this scripture. What symbols of life are most meaningful for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}