{"id":23943,"date":"2008-08-29T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/the-just-shall-fourish-the-wit\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T09:11:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:11:43","slug":"the-just-shall-fourish-the-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/the-just-shall-fourish-the-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"The just shall flourish: the witness of Saint John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Martyrdom%20of%20St%20John%20Baptist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"173\" alt=\"Martyrdom of St John Baptist.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Martyrdom%20of%20St%20John%20Baptist-thumb-250x173.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8220;This great man after a long agony of captivity, ended his life on earth with the shedding of his blood. He who preached the freedom of heavenly peace was thrown into captivity by wicked men. He who was called a burning and shining light by Christ the light, was imprisoned in darkness: he who was granted the privilege of baptizing the Redeemer of the world was given baptism in his own blood&#8221; (Saint Bede the Venerable).<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">We beseech Thee, O Lord, may the holy festival of Saint John the Baptist, Thy Precursor and Martyr, obtain for us help unto salvation. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This great man after a long agony of captivity, ended his life on earth with the shedding of his blood. He who preached the freedom of heavenly peace was thrown into captivity by wicked men. He who was called a burning and shining light by Christ the light, was imprisoned in darkness: he who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/the-just-shall-fourish-the-wit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The just shall flourish: the witness of Saint John the Baptist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}