{"id":70,"date":"2020-04-27T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:20:04","slug":"the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the nation casts its vote and the majority choose to protect their own I&#8217;m heartened by the reminder that this evening, in pockets all over this land, people of difference are meeting over food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A seemingly innocuous invitation and the act of accepting that invitation to join together in an Iftar meal suddenly holds layers of meaning as we sit to share in a welcoming of the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together we make the choice to share the same space, to hear each other&#8217;s stories; to taste new food &#8211; the smell of which surprises, delights and even confuses; to touch each other&#8217;s hearts and to see an alternative horizon. Is it too much of a leap to see in this radical hospitality traces of the Kingdom here embodied?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation casts its vote and the majority choose to protect their own I&#8217;m heartened by the reminder that this evening, in pockets all over this land, people of difference are meeting over food. A seemingly innocuous invitation and the act of accepting that invitation to join together in an Iftar meal suddenly holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}