{"id":2758,"date":"2010-12-02T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T08:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2010-12-06T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T14:43:04","slug":"the-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"The Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did Mary and Joseph understand and feel about what was happening to them during the huge surprise and news of Mary\u2019s pregnancy?  <\/p>\n<p>How did Mary Feel? Mary is visited by an Angel and is impregnated \u2013 she remains a virgin\/ never sleeping with a man.  The semen is divine \u2013 was it divine IVF? This is impossible \u2013 never happened before \u2013 how would she tell Joseph? What would he think?  What would her friends think?   What were her feelings \u2013perhaps deep fear of being seen as crazy, many questions, awe, amazement and anxiety all fused together.  <\/p>\n<p>How did Joseph feel?  \u2013 Mary has slept with an angel \/ God \u2013 this brings a whole new meaning to the earth moved! How can he compete with that? Is he just a bit-part in the whole scenario?   Can he believe her, can he trust her \u2013 this is impossible and it\u2019s not fair, it messes with all my plans!  Never has anything like this happened before or anyone claimed this\u2026 Who is Mary? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Mary and Joseph understand and feel about what was happening to them during the huge surprise and news of Mary\u2019s pregnancy? How did Mary Feel? Mary is visited by an Angel and is impregnated \u2013 she remains a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agnostic-advent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}