{"id":1035,"date":"2017-07-27T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2022-06-09T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:56:53","slug":"bookend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/bookend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_3489.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a year since I have posted\u2026 I\u2019ve managed to stay out of the hospital\u2026 have overcome pain and numbness from a herniated C5\/C6 disc via physical therapy and acupuncture\u2026 have expanded my knitting\u2026 have been taking photos, alias have not posted them\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, I am finding myself more and more disappointed with major parts of the world\u2026 both globally and locally\u2026 the light I do see comes from the likes of Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In college, at the UofA, I spent a lot of time hanging out at the St Thomas More Newman Center. Sitting, thinking, drawing, praying\u2026 While I\u2019d have long discussions with a few of the Dominicans, my faith has always been something primarily private. I choose to keep it private as I find many have a tendency to use their religion against others, to judge them while exhaulting themselves\u2026 just as the Pharisee of Luke 18:9-14\u2026 that is something I don\u2019t agree with\u2026 that said, my faith is a strong part of my life and perhaps it is time to start sharing it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cStop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.\u201d \u2013 Luke 7:37-38<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a year since I have posted\u2026 I\u2019ve managed to stay out of the hospital\u2026 have overcome pain and numbness from a herniated C5\/C6 disc via physical therapy and acupuncture\u2026 have expanded my knitting\u2026 have been taking photos, alias have not posted them\u2026 In the meantime, I am finding myself more and more disappointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,66],"tags":[8,18,54],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}