{"id":239,"date":"2006-12-25T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/12\/25\/a-hopeless-quest\/"},"modified":"2006-12-25T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:28:32","slug":"a-hopeless-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/a-hopeless-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hopeless Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though many times I&#8217;ve wished to write<br \/>A novel starring Jesus Christ,<br \/>The question grave is how I might<br \/>Let Truth remain unsacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>This is indeed a hopeless quest,<br \/>Since most of his biography<br \/>Poetic licence is at best<br \/>And lends but little help to me.<\/p>\n<p>I grant there is here irony,<br \/>As fiction acts through metaphor;<br \/>Yet hate I do the sophistry<br \/>Of artists who true facts obscure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>3 February 1994<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though many times I&#8217;ve wished to writeA novel starring Jesus Christ,The question grave is how I mightLet Truth remain unsacrificed. This is indeed a hopeless quest,Since most of his biographyPoetic licence is at bestAnd lends but little help to me. I grant there is here irony,As fiction acts through metaphor;Yet hate I do the sophistryOf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}