{"id":14857,"date":"2013-03-24T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:20:30","slug":"what-living-the-christian-faith-is-like-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2013\/03\/what-living-the-christian-faith-is-like-in-a-nutshell.html","title":{"rendered":"What Living the Christian Faith is Like, In a Nutshell&#8230;"},"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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2013\/03\/PaxSilverPin.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14858 aligncenter\" title=\"PaxSilverPin\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2013\/03\/PaxSilverPin-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Rumer Goddin\u2019s opening paragraph from <em>This House of Brede<\/em>,<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe motto was \u2018Pax,\u2019 but the word was set in a circle of thorns. 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