{"id":13292,"date":"2014-04-22T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2014-04-22T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:35:28","slug":"happy-earth-creation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/happy-earth-creation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Earth\/ Creation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/creator-and-creation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/creator-and-creation-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"The way you treat the creation reflects how you feel about the creator.\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/creator-and-creation-500x334.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/creator-and-creation-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/creator-and-creation.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I refer back to this quote a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Usually in how we treat one another (as in it&#8217;s original context) but I think it also goes right along with Creation care as well.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up I remember making jokes about Treehuggers and thinking they were all a bunch of liberal bleeding heart crazies. <\/p>\n<p>But a big change happened when I started to see &#8220;Environmentalism&#8221; as Creation care. It&#8217;s not just a liberal cause that&#8217;s tied to a political agenda. It&#8217;s actually more about our call to be good stewards of what we&#8217;ve been given.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on the fence about Creation care, I&#8217;d encourage you to listen to a couple interviews I did on the <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">something beautiful podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One with <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/jonathan-merritt-3-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Merritt<\/a> and the other with <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/ragan-sutterfield-3-17\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ragan Sutterfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for grins, enjoy this NSFW animation from Luis C.K.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOojbp8ptWI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refer back to this quote a lot. Usually in how we treat one another (as in it&#8217;s original context) but I think it also goes right along with Creation care as well. Growing up I remember making jokes about Treehuggers and thinking they were all a bunch of liberal bleeding heart crazies. But a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/happy-earth-creation-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Earth\/ Creation Day<\/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":[24],"tags":[3760,2053,987],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treehugging","tag-creation","tag-creation-care","tag-earth-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3so","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","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=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13295,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/13295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}