{"id":15621,"date":"2022-12-03T22:47:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=15621"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:47:39","slug":"deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=15621","title":{"rendered":"DEEPER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15620\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1-465x350.jpg 465w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1-664x500.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/>&#8220;If you saw yourself as lovely, that would limit how loved you could feel. But love by its very nature is not dependent on the loveliness of the beloved. If you felt yourself to be lovely, you could feel loved to a degree, but you could not be astonished with how loved you are. It&#8217;s precisely our messiness that makes Christ&#8217;s love so surprising, so startling, so arresting&#8211;and thereby so transforming.&#8221; p. 79, Deeper by Dane Ortlund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you saw yourself as lovely, that would limit how loved you could feel. But love by its very nature is not dependent on the loveliness of the beloved. If you felt yourself to be lovely, you could feel loved to a degree, but you could not be astonished with how loved you are. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_8151-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}