{"id":728,"date":"2015-12-31T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=728"},"modified":"2015-12-31T20:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T00:02:53","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-730\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-730\" src=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"me and my wife\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151106_002-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yours truly with The Wife in a recent photo, enjoying a great summer night (right now it&#8217;s summer on this side of Earth).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hope you all have a very blessed start of the year of our Lord 2016. Again, my hope is that you may be able to celebrate with joy and surrounded of the affection of your loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>2015 was a very blessed year in all respects. I acknowledge that I had many struggles and disappointments, like many others. But God also showed His mercy in all times and, by Him and thanks to Him we were able to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>May 2016 be a year full of success, accomplishments and joy; and also an opportunity to turn back to God and walk again by the path of hope. I leave you with these Bible texts to meditate and act accordingly upon them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let us test and examine our ways,<br \/>\nand return to the LORD!<br \/>\nLet us lift up our hearts and hands<br \/>\nto God in heaven:<br \/>\nThe steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;<br \/>\nhis mercies never come to an end;<br \/>\nthey are new every morning;<br \/>\ngreat is your faithfulness.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; (Lamentations 3:40-41,22-23 ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Happy 2016!! Have a great time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all have a very blessed start of the year of our Lord 2016. Again, my hope is that you may be able to celebrate with joy and surrounded of the affection of your loved ones. 2015 was a very blessed year in all respects. I acknowledge that I had many struggles and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}