{"id":126,"date":"2004-10-27T19:54:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-03-01T00:08:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:08:20","slug":"image-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Image is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to being slightly bemused by yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/3958241.stm\">article<\/a> speculating on Jesus Christ&#8217;s ethnicity. It would seem that some people only look on the surface, especially in this image concious age &#8211; although this is not a new phenomenon &#8211; rather than &#8220;look&#8221; at who Jesus really is.<br \/>\nThe Bible is notable for lacking any information on Jesus&#8217; appearance, but concentrating on his deeds and his words. It would seem that the writers of the Bible considered his image to be completely unimportant, and Jesus&#8217; message to be of utmost importance.<br \/>\nWill we follow the world and look at the surface, or will we look deeper and discover what is really important?<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" title=\"Rg nhuGU\">Rg nhuGU<\/a> -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit to being slightly bemused by yet another article speculating on Jesus Christ&#8217;s ethnicity. It would seem that some people only look on the surface, especially in this image concious age &#8211; although this is not a new phenomenon &#8211; rather than &#8220;look&#8221; at who Jesus really is. The Bible is notable for&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=126\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}