{"id":1418,"date":"2010-04-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:22","slug":"greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Greetings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say about Easter? If there were no resurrection then we would have had a wise man who said and did a lot of great things and who was killed for it. Big deal. The resurrection is why we have hope.<\/p>\n<p>I always wondered though about how it looked first hand to those who first saw Jesus after he was resurrected. I think he tried to break it to them gently by using angels but people were shocked nonetheless. I mean its one thing to be told about something and another to experience it.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus himself didn&#8217;t say much when he first appears alive after his death. In the Matthew account he says simply &#8220;Greetings.&#8221; In John, he says &#8220;Mary.&#8221; He had to know that the shock of his appearance would be beyond overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>How great is it going to be when we get to say &#8220;Hello&#8221; to those loved ones who preceded us in death?<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime we celebrate Easter as a time of new beginnings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4487945725\/\" title=\"20100403_42 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4487945725_65d6904f06-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100403_42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4487958079\/\" title=\"20100403_96 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/4487958079_c29fc33120-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100403_96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a Blessed Easter from the Yogi&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can I say about Easter? If there were no resurrection then we would have had a wise man who said and did a lot of great things and who was killed for it. Big deal. The resurrection is why we have hope. I always wondered though about how it looked first hand to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[681,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baloney-sunday-challenge","category-easter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}