{"id":221,"date":"2012-04-02T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-04-06T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:21:01","slug":"we-are-very-much-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are very much the &#8216;present&#8217;!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my post &#8220;<a title=\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Needed: A Theology of Children\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=216\" target=\"_blank\">Needed: A Theology of Children<\/a>,&#8221; my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/onthechancelsteps.wordpress.com\/\">Fran<\/a> mentioned in her comment a cartoon I had shown her:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thepresent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222\" title=\"thepresent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thepresent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thepresent.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thepresent-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cartoon comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/asbojesus.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/09\/1045\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASBO Jesus<\/a>, and I share it with the <a href=\"http:\/\/asbojesus.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">artist&#8217;s permission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also use it each week in an e-mail that is sent to all families with children in &#8220;our&#8221; age group &#8211; children ages 3 through fifth grade. (And, at the suggestion of our vestry liaison, we now send out copies of all e-mails targeted to children and youth and their families to EVERY vestry member. What a wonderful idea!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my post &#8220;Needed: A Theology of Children,&#8221; my friend Fran mentioned in her comment a cartoon I had shown her: The cartoon comes from ASBO Jesus, and I share it with the artist&#8217;s permission. We also use it each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-episcopal-church","tag-godly-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.browniesmoke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}