{"id":3143,"date":"2012-04-07T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2012-04-07T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:41:45","slug":"easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"EASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For any Christian, it seems to me, Easter should be the most meaningful day. Isn&#8217;t the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Resurrection_of_Jesus\">resurrection <\/a>the pivotal thesis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionfacts.com\/\">Christianity<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I have always wondered if this sacrifice doesn&#8217;t mean that Life on Earth is so special, worth so much, then why would one think it could be better somewhere else? \u00a0Personally, in spite of life&#8217;s troubles, I like it right here.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY EASTER.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=3144\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3144\" title=\"christ402 - Version 2\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christ402-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christ402-Version-2.jpg 591w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christ402-Version-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; For any Christian, it seems to me, Easter should be the most meaningful day. Isn&#8217;t the resurrection the pivotal thesis of Christianity? I have always wondered if this sacrifice doesn&#8217;t mean that Life on Earth is so special, worth so much, then why would one think it could be better somewhere else? \u00a0Personally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EASTER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1259],"tags":[2467,1261,1260,2576],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-easter","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}