{"id":1019,"date":"2013-03-31T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-03-31T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T14:21:20","slug":"happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/happy-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"VenerableHappy Easter … Happy Rebirth!<\/h3>\n

Easter is our “do-over” … our chance to “get it right.”<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

? Fulton J. Sheen<\/em> <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Easter<\/h2>\n

O.E. Eastre <\/strong><\/em>(Northumbrian Eostre<\/strong><\/em>), from P.Gmc. *Austron<\/strong><\/em>, a goddess of fertility and sunrise whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *austra<\/strong><\/em>-, from PIE *aus- “to shine”<\/strong><\/span> (especially of the dawn).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Anglo-Saxon Christians adopted her name and many of the celebratory practices for\u00a0 Christ’s resurrection … related to east; most neighboring languages use a variant of Latin Pasche<\/strong> <\/em>to name this holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n

— Online Etymology Dictionary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cUnless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.\u201d — Fulton J. Sheen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16,15,114],"tags":[40,33,48,35],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-noteworthy","category-personalphilosophical","category-quotations","tag-christian","tag-inspiration","tag-religion","tag-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":1019,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? He was beckoned irresistibly by the sea with all of its hidden treasures. Surveying has wooed surveyors for centuries. We surveyors are also explorers, discoverers and pioneers.","rel":"","context":"In "History\/Politics"","block_context":{"text":"History\/Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Columbus seduced by the sea.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/columbus-thinking-117x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}