{"id":775,"date":"2007-02-04T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2007-05-02T21:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T02:28:19","slug":"this-is-for-you-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"This is for you, Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two winters ago, Craig and I were both serving at the Unitarian Universalist church in Geneva, Illinois. We liked to stand out in front of the church and greet people as they came in. Since both of us have a bit of a competitive streak in us, we kept on standing outside to greet people nearly every week right up through the end of December, no matter how cold it was (rain was a different matter &#8212; we stood inside when it rained). And we managed to brave the cold at least once a month through the entire winter.<\/p>\n<p>So last week I got a challenging email message from Craig. He&#8217;s now at a church in Wisconsin, and he said that he had been standing out in front that church on Sunday morning greeting people. As I said, we&#8217;re both a little competitive. <em>Of course<\/em> I had been outside that morning &#8212; I nearly always stand out in front of the church here in New Bedford to greet people before worship. But now, clearly, the gauntlet has been thrown down. So Craig, I&#8217;m making this public:<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, February 4, 2007. Stood outdoors to greet people for 15 minutes, from 10:40 to 10:55 a.m. Weather at 10:53 as reported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erh.noaa.gov\/data\/obhistory\/KEWB.html\">National Weather service<\/a> Web site: clear, winds 17 mph (gusts to 25 mph), temerature 24 Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>How about you, Craig? Any other ministers or religious educators out there want to take the challenge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two winters ago, Craig and I were both serving at the Unitarian Universalist church in Geneva, Illinois. We liked to stand out in front of the church and greet people as they came in. Since both of us have a bit of a competitive streak in us, we kept on standing outside to greet people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}