{"id":6347,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/our-temple-of-flesh-and-bone\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","slug":"our-temple-of-flesh-and-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/our-temple-of-flesh-and-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Temple of Flesh and Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Henry David Thoreau&#8217;s book WALDEN, written in 1845:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body&#8230;.  We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.  Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man&#8217;s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Henry David Thoreau&#8217;s book WALDEN, written in 1845: &#8220;Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body&#8230;. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man&#8217;s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1572,370,1573,1574],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347"}],"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=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}