{"id":2247,"date":"2011-08-18T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:29:07","slug":"the-most-beautiful-ikon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/08\/18\/the-most-beautiful-ikon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Beautiful Ikon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0439.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2248\" title=\"IMAG0439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMAG0439-1024x768.jpg?resize=384%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>My ten year old son painted this shell for me.\u00a0 The cross-shaped figure at the top is Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>My son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=559\">has epilepsy<\/a>.\u00a0 His seizures in recent years have been under control, but he cannot properly process language.\u00a0 He can communicate and understand many things, but only in his own unique way.<\/p>\n<p>This shell is one of the most precious gifts I&#8217;ve ever received.\u00a0 It points in to the one who is beyond language, beyond &#8220;normal&#8221; syntax, beyond appearances.\u00a0 That one looks out from it over the whole world, his arms outstretched from the cross to embrace and take back into it all of creation&#8217;s groaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ten year old son painted this shell for me.\u00a0 The cross-shaped figure at the top is Jesus. My son has epilepsy.\u00a0 His seizures in recent years have been under control, but he cannot properly process language.\u00a0 He can communicate and understand many things, but only in his own unique way. This shell is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-Af","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}