{"id":156,"date":"2018-04-19T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:41:51","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/?page_id=156","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"exifviewer-img-8\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-331\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toxic-Fruit3-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toxic-Fruit3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toxic-Fruit3-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toxic-Fruit3-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Toxic-Fruit3.png 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"#\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Modern Reinterpretation of the Revelation of Constantine<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This image, found in an airline safety card could possibly be a modern reinterpretation of the Revelation of Constantine.\u00a0 In 312 A.D. the Roman Emperor Constantine &#8220;looked up to the sun before the battle and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words &#8220;<i><span lang=\"grc\" title=\"Ancient Greek language text\">\u1f18\u03bd \u03a4\u03bf\u03cd\u03c4\u1ff3 \u039d\u03af\u03ba\u03b1<\/span><\/i>&#8221; (in this sign, conquer)&#8230; Constantine commanded his troops to adorn their shields with a Christian symbol (the\u00a0<a title=\"Labarum\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labarum\">Chi-Rho<\/a>), and thereafter they were victorious.\u00a0 Thus began a most egregious tradition of hiding behind a man of peace in the pursuit of violence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"exifviewer-img-13\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Constantines_conversion-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Constantines_conversion-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Constantines_conversion-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Constantines_conversion-1024x844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Modern Reinterpretation of the Revelation of Constantine This image, found in an airline safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelmetzler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}