{"id":6459,"date":"2010-12-20T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T10:26:23","slug":"it-is-easier-for-a-camel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/20\/it-is-easier-for-a-camel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is easier for a camel&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus&#8217; teaching continues to discern to the heart of each one of us. In today&#8217;s press I was reminded of &#8220;Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the <strong>eye<\/strong> of a <strong>needle<\/strong> than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/keyword\/?search=eye%20of%20a%20needle&amp;version1=31&amp;searchtype=all&amp;bookset=4&amp;limit=bookset\">Matthew 19:23-25<\/a>\u00a0How easy it is to lose the Jesus story of the upside down kingdom of God. May God protect me from the tyranny of self-aggrandisement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi which unveiled a Christmas tree decorated with jewels valued at $US11 million has decided to put the record straight against criticism of having gone over the top.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirates Palace hotel said it regretted &#8220;attempts to overload the tradition followed by most hotels in the country&#8221;, in a statement quoted in <em>Gulf News<\/em> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Putting the Christmas tree&#8230; is a tradition meant to share in celebrating occasions guests hold while they are away from their home countries and families,&#8221; said the hotel in the United Arab Emirates capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/travel\/travel-news\/trouble-over-11-million-christmas-tree-20101220-1923z.html\">Trouble over 11 million dollar Christmas tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus&#8217; teaching continues to discern to the heart of each one of us. In today&#8217;s press I was reminded of &#8220;Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/20\/it-is-easier-for-a-camel\/\">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\/6459"}],"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=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6466,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}