{"id":122,"date":"2007-07-20T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/20\/tony-snow-writes-about-gods-grace-and-cancer\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T15:51:51","slug":"tony-snow-writes-about-gods-grace-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/tony-snow-writes-about-gods-grace-and-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Tony Snow writes about God&#8217;s grace and cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Snow is the White House Press Secretary. He has cancer. He also knows that God has <em>him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t know why I have cancer, and I don&#8217;t much care. It is what it is\u2014a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.<\/p>\n<p>But despite this\u2014because of it\u2014God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don&#8217;t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christianity Today: <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2007\/july\/25.30.html\">Cancer&#8217;s Unexpected Blessings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Snow is the White House Press Secretary. He has cancer. He also knows that God has him. I don&#8217;t know why I have cancer, and I don&#8217;t much care. It is what it is\u2014a plain and indisputable fact. Yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/tony-snow-writes-about-gods-grace-and-cancer\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}