{"id":82129,"date":"2025-04-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=82129"},"modified":"2025-04-13T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:51:26","slug":"easter-wings-by-george-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2025\/04\/easter-wings-by-george-herbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Wings by George Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2025\/04\/tintoretto-la-resurrezione-d6c3f7.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82159\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2025\/04\/tintoretto-la-resurrezione-d6c3f7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2025\/04\/Easter_Wings_text-1.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82156\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2025\/04\/Easter_Wings_text-1-835x1024.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>By George Herbert \u2013 https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/originals\/3d\/81\/0f\/3d810f6c05fdd0a971fbb0bc3fad175b.jpg, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=45980531<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/picryl.com\/media\/tintoretto-la-resurrezione-d6c3f7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Resurrection<\/a> by Tintoretto, via Picryl, Public domain<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Greetings from our friend George Herbert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":82159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8257,28],"tags":[720,910,16252],"class_list":["post-82129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-week","category-literature","tag-easter","tag-george-herbert","tag-george-herberts-easter-wings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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