{"id":11401,"date":"2013-06-26T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:33:09","slug":"bono-talks-with-focus-on-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-talks-with-focus-on-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono talks with Focus on the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bono talked with Focus on the Family this week about his life, his wife of 30 years, his family and more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/radio?ID=%7B4D0CE13C-E217-49E2-B030-5C502AE89E90%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few stand out quotes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The job of love &#8211; and maybe job is the wrong word &#8211; is to realize the potential of others. So if you&#8217;re doing that equally in a relationship and both of you are fixed on realizing each other&#8217;s potential then you&#8217;ll probably get places.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior where we&#8217;re just nice &#8211; sort of death by cupcake&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. I understand that for some people and we need to&#8230; if I could be so bold, need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous&#8230;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very annoying following this person of Christ around, because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very demanding of your life. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to go to university and do a Ph.D. to understand this stuff. You just go to the person of Christ.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bono talked with Focus on the Family this week about his life, his wife of 30 years, his family and more. Listen to the interview. A few stand out quotes: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The job of love &#8211; and maybe job is the wrong word &#8211; is to realize the potential of others. So if you&#8217;re doing that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-talks-with-focus-on-the-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bono talks with Focus on the Family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[589,65,586],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bono","tag-focus-on-the-family","tag-u2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2XT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}