{"id":816,"date":"2015-04-20T01:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T23:47:44","slug":"816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/816\/","title":{"rendered":"Who or What is God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-817 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat.jpg\" alt=\"Who or What is God? Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, has an up-close encounter with a plant in a Tucson desert\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whoORwhat-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are places that make me want to sing. There are beautiful things that make me cry. Every so often something smacks me in this world and I am prompted to question everything I believe in. Then I stand stock-still and forget to breathe. Maybe even tremble.<br \/>\n\u201cWho could create something like this?\u201d I whisper. And if you know me you will not be surprised to hear me declare, \u201cIt\u2019s a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you put on your glasses and examine the insides of a flower, cut open a vegetable, or magnify the eye of an ant; if you step back to survey vast seas and skies, magnificent landforms; or close your eyes completely to meet the wind, the sun\u2019s warmth, cooling mists of roaring waterfalls, the sound of a baby\u2019s laughter tucked in your closet of memories; you might begin to find what some call God.<\/p>\n<p><em>What makes you drop your jaw in awe?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are places that make me want to sing. There are beautiful things that make me cry. Every so often something smacks me in this world and I am prompted to question everything I believe in. Then I stand stock-still and forget to breathe. Maybe even tremble. &ldquo;Who could create something like this?&rdquo; I whisper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[481,482,485,484,483,480],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-beautiful-world","tag-its-a-gift","tag-magnificent-things","tag-question-beliefs","tag-what-is-god","tag-who-or-what-is-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}