{"id":4199,"date":"2014-06-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2016-08-26T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:57:21","slug":"startling-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"STARTLING CREMATION!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 37px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heartsandmindsbooks.com\/surprised%20by%20hope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am currently reading through this terrific book with our youngest son, Chris, who is on a summer missions trip in the Dominican Republic. \u00a0Courtesy of Skype, we were able to talk through the first two chapters this past Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One excerpt for your reading pleasure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;On one occasion a widow put into her husband&#8217;s coffin two cans of the spray adhesive that the dead man had used to paste on his toupee, causing an explosion that bent the furnace door.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(<em>Surprised by Hope<\/em> by N.T. Wright, p. 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading through this terrific book with our youngest son, Chris, who is on a summer missions trip in the Dominican Republic. \u00a0Courtesy of Skype, we were able to talk through the first two chapters this past Sunday. One excerpt for your reading pleasure: &#8220;On one occasion a widow put into her husband&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-humor","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}