{"id":5792,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/no-one-ever-cared-for-me-like-jesus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","slug":"no-one-ever-cared-for-me-like-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/no-one-ever-cared-for-me-like-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe met all sorts of girls at camp.  There were a dozen girls from an orphanage who had never been adopted.  Among these I admired an older girl named Liz &#8211; a large-framed, bony girl with dry blond curls and red checkbones who wore a wool lumberjack shirt.  Every Sunday night, gathered in our bare old rec hall of a chapel, we children could request a favorite hymn if we could recite a Bible verse.  Year after year, big Liz returned unadopted to camp and Sunday after Sunday, requested, \u2018No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Anne Dillard,  An American Childhood  (New York: Harper &#038; Row, 1987), 133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe met all sorts of girls at camp. There were a dozen girls from an orphanage who had never been adopted. Among these I admired an older girl named Liz &#8211; a large-framed, bony girl with dry blond curls and red checkbones who wore a wool lumberjack shirt. Every Sunday night, gathered in our bare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}