{"id":544,"date":"2012-04-06T18:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2012-04-06T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T22:14:24","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate Good Friday and head into the Easter weekend, I think back to the beautiful crucifix on the Charles Bridge in Prague.\u00a0 It is sad to think that christian icons like this are currently frowned upon in the U.S. if represented on public or government property.\u00a0 Separation of church and state is a founding principle of our country.\u00a0 I wholeheartedly support this, but we continue to evolve toward freedom <em>from<\/em> religion rather than freedom of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, He has died and risen for all of us.\u00a0 No person, government, 0r circumstance can deny us of this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_545\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-545\" title=\"Prague_451\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prague_451-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prague_451-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prague_451-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Prague_451.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christ on the Cross - Charles Bridge, Prague<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we celebrate Good Friday and head into the Easter weekend, I think back to the beautiful crucifix on the Charles Bridge in Prague.\u00a0 It is sad to think that christian icons like this are currently frowned upon in the U.S. if represented on public or government property.\u00a0 Separation of church and state is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}