{"id":8041,"date":"2022-08-29T22:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numberourdays.org\/?p=61"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:33","slug":"even-dementia-is-not-dark-to-god-by-cynthia-fischer-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=8041","title":{"rendered":"Even Dementia Is Not Dark to God by Cynthia Fischer (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;One afternoon, I read Eric Carle\u2019s <em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> to her. She loved that the caterpillar ate his way through all the fruit of the week. After the caterpillar formed a cocoon, I turned the page, and she was astounded that he had become a butterfly. It was my turn to have my eyes opened wide. I was watching my 90-year-old mother transformed into a small child full of marvel and wonder at God\u2019s creation (Matt. 18:3). She was hearing these stories as if she were a toddler, seemingly for the very first time [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/even-dementia-not-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One afternoon, I read Eric Carle\u2019s The Very Hungry Caterpillar to her. She loved that the caterpillar ate his way through all the fruit of the week. After the caterpillar formed a cocoon, I turned the page, and she was astounded that he had become a butterfly. It was my turn to have my eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}