{"id":5227,"date":"2018-02-22T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2018-02-22T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:32:33","slug":"some-have-entertained-angels-unawares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/some-have-entertained-angels-unawares\/","title":{"rendered":"Some have Entertained Angels Unawares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Concordia. It is a feast day of the Ancient Roman calendar falling on the 22nd of February, in which folks reconciled their differences over a good meal. That&#8217;s it, pure and simple: A gathering around the table with the purpose of breaking bread and sharing wine in order to make amends and to settle all disputes that cause discord. Harmony is the goal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used this image before, but tonight, for some reason, it strikes me as particularly poignant. It&#8217;s a watercolor by Edward Clifford, and I&#8217;ve named today&#8217;s <em>Book of Days<\/em> post after it, for I love the painting and the idea behind it. You never know who you&#8217;re talking to&#8230; so why not strive for harmony as often as possible?<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: &#8220;Some have Entertained Angels Unawares&#8221; by Edward Clifford. Watercolor, late 19th century. [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Concordia. It is a feast day of the Ancient Roman calendar falling on the 22nd of February, in which folks reconciled their differences over a good meal. That&#8217;s it, pure and simple: A gathering around the table with the purpose of breaking bread and sharing wine in order to make amends and to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}