{"id":111,"date":"2008-08-01T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-08-01T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:00:36","slug":"and-god-smiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/and-god-smiled\/","title":{"rendered":"And God Smiled\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #548dd4; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #548dd4; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/church-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-112\" title=\"church\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/church-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Church, a few years back.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Skip to the end of the service, where the final hymn is sung and the audience rests in a moment of solitude, reflecting on the message, the meaning, and the moment as they await the priest\u2019s blessing and affirmation to go into the world in peace\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #548dd4; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Enter my little red head, caught up in the moment \u2013 with a fervor in her spirit and fire in her bones she interrupts the solitude to boldly proclaim her own message \u201cThat\u2019s it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The show is over!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The church erupted in laughter, the priest struggled to give the blessing, and my wife retreated into denial and disbelief that this \u2018blessed\u2019 event had just occurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church, a few years back.\u00a0 Skip to the end of the service, where the final hymn is sung and the audience rests in a moment of solitude, reflecting on the message, the meaning, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}