{"id":4582,"date":"2026-02-09T18:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4582"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:55:44","slug":"joseph-of-arimathea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/joseph-of-arimathea\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph of Arimathea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With this death my hopes all fade and die,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">but there is one way to express my care:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I\u2019ll take him down gently, so that he can lie<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">in my own tomb; that\u2019s something I <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>can<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> share.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Let it form a temple for our aching grief,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">a sanctuary sacred to his memory, where<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">pilgrims and weeping followers find relief<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">as my sweet spices soothe away the pain<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">of those who loved him, offering a brief <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">respite of peace where they might remain<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">a little while to pray and gather strength,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">before returning to the world again<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">recalling the life of the man they had adored,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">and treasuring the memory of love outpoured.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\n<p lang=\"en-US\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Segoe UI;\">\u00a9<\/span> Alwyn Marriage 2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this death my hopes all fade and die, but there is one way to express my care: I\u2019ll take him down gently, so that he can lie in my own tomb; that\u2019s something I can share. Let it form a temple for our aching grief, a sanctuary sacred to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/joseph-of-arimathea\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joseph of Arimathea<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4582\/revisions\/4662"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}