{"id":24,"date":"2021-05-29T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T00:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2022-03-24T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:35:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orthoscopy.net website was first created to keep friends informed about my progress as I wrote my first book, <em>Orthoscopy: Clear Vision to See What We ought To Do<\/em>. It also served as a platform to share my thoughts expressed in homilies, bulletin articles, and random newsletters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently the website was revamped as I draw to the end of writing a second book, as yet untitled and obviously unpublished. Several years ago, I felt called by God to write about Purgatory and I have struggled with the right approach to accomplish it. There have been many starts and stop, many dead ends, and long times when I walked away in frustration. But finally I was able to pull together some thoughts that I hope others struggling with the concept of Purgatory will find useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new website is set up primarily as a blog where I will post my weekly Monday homilies, my occasional Sunday homilies, and other random reflections. I will also post updates on the final push for completion of the new book, starting with the pursuit of a publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deacon Joe Hulway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orthoscopy.net website was first created to keep friends informed about my progress as I wrote my first book, Orthoscopy: Clear Vision to See What We ought To Do. It also served as a platform to share my thoughts expressed in homilies, bulletin articles, and random newsletters. Recently the website was revamped as I draw&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/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-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}