{"id":11755,"date":"2013-03-08T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2013-03-08T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:04:00","slug":"on-martha-stewart-of-bethany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/on-martha-stewart-of-bethany\/","title":{"rendered":"on &#8220;Martha Stewart of Bethany&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/on-martha-stewart-of-bethany\/rembrandt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11756\" alt=\"rembrandt\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rembrandt-300x243.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rembrandt-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rembrandt-350x285.png 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rembrandt-150x121.png 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rembrandt.png 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a humorous and poignant lenten reflection from the irrepressible Prof Doug Jackson<\/p>\n<p><em>excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lazaruses are a happy family \u2013 one of the few that Scripture gives us \u2013 and their happiness forms a complex choreography. There\u2019s Martha Stewart of Bethany, very active and Baptist, worrying that the unleavened bread won\u2019t rise and carving radishes into the shape of Torah scrolls. There\u2019s the liturgical Lazarus, playing the gracious host, his very presence a passive but massive proof of the power of his guest. And there\u2019s Mary, an early-day Pentecostal who simply will not learn propriety, performing over-the-top acts of quasi-erotic worship that bust the budget and embarrass the guests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=9ded763de880789f0906f2844&amp;id=946676b8de&amp;e=9883430b6c\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There\u2019s Martha Stewart of Bethany&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6179,4484,5350,15,1027,1064,1222,1579,1580,4674,5974,2000,4452,4440,6178,2143,5538,4798,2814,2996,3711,91],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-bethany","tag-bread","tag-budget","tag-church","tag-doug-jackson","tag-easter","tag-family","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-lazarus","tag-learn","tag-lent","tag-lenten","tag-lenten-reflection","tag-martha","tag-mary","tag-pentecostal","tag-power","tag-reflection","tag-scripture","tag-will","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11759,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}