{"id":13047,"date":"2012-12-19T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=13047"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T04:33:29","slug":"season-a-time-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/12\/19\/season-a-time-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Season a time of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Jennifer Crawley of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/\">Mercury newspaper<\/a> I made the following comment, published yesterday. Jennifer wrote,<\/p>\n<p><em>Tasmanians are looking for hope after the recent tragic shootings and economic hard times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican Bishop John\u00a0Harrower said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The church was a good place to think and pray about these events.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome anyone who is looking for hope to come along this Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>Hope was the most important thing\u00a0the church has to offer people.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is Australians going through tough economic times or Tasmanians and Americans mourning, Christmas is about God giving us a sign of hope.<\/p>\n<p>The world can sometimes seem like a dark place, but God has sent a light into the world in a baby born at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage Tasmanians to go to a church near them this Christmas and find the hope that Jesus offers freely to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also my YouTube and print Bishop&#8217;s Christmas message, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/12\/14\/god-speaks-life-2\/\">God speaks life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Jennifer Crawley of the Mercury newspaper I made the following comment, published yesterday. Jennifer wrote, Tasmanians are looking for hope after the recent tragic shootings and economic hard times. Anglican Bishop John\u00a0Harrower said, The church was a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/12\/19\/season-a-time-of-hope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13047"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}