{"id":20,"date":"2014-04-16T02:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-04-16T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T06:22:00","slug":"a-pie-plate-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"A Pie Plate Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting the debut novel of author and pastor, William Loewen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/novelcover2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17 alignleft\" alt=\"novelcover2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/novelcover2-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/novelcover2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/novelcover2-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Lydia Phillips has a degree in comparative literature and she thought she had found a dream job at a publishing company, but it hasn&#8217;t quite worked out that way.\u00a0 Her boss is out of touch, and new ideas are routinely ignored.\u00a0 Suddenly, she is commissioned to oversee the compilation of a Christian self-help book, even though she has no faith background of her own.<\/p>\n<p>She needs to research the industry, interview potential authors, and navigate company policies just to get the book started.\u00a0 An unlikely friends helps her on her way, and the whole process becomes a kind of spiritual journey for her.<\/p>\n<p>In the narrative spirituality genre, like <em>The Shack<\/em> and <em>A New Kind of <\/em><em>Christian<\/em>, <em>A Pie Plate Pilgrimage<\/em>invites you on a journey of progress and decline, of tearing down and building up, and of asking and discovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting the debut novel of author and pastor, William Loewen. Lydia Phillips has a degree in comparative literature and she thought she had found a dream job at a publishing company, but it hasn&#8217;t quite worked out that way.\u00a0 Her boss is out of touch, and new ideas are routinely ignored.\u00a0 Suddenly, she is commissioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordlylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}