{"id":2796,"date":"2014-11-03T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T11:52:34","slug":"the-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/2796\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of each life is \u2013 in some sense \u2013 death. When one among us reaches this point, the others often say he has lost his life. When a person died among the first Christians, they used to say: He has won his life! He has succeeded! And they wove this man a victory wreath so as to celebrate with him! A victory wreath, just as the ones the victors from tournaments had received in those days! The custom of sending a man to his grave with a wreath has remained. The message of this wreath is forgotten. It goes thus: You are a winner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of each life is \u2013 in some sense \u2013 death. When one among us reaches this point, the others often say he has lost his life. When a person died among the first Christians, they used to say: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/2796\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,276,140,178,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-comfort","category-death","category-grieving","category-separation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}