{"id":936,"date":"2011-08-03T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=936"},"modified":"2011-08-04T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:32:52","slug":"church-in-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/08\/church-in-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Church in summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane, a Lutheran pastor and blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/faithincommunity.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/what-i-saw-today.html\">writes about going to church in the summer<\/a>. Common wisdom is that it&#8217;s not worth going to church in the summer because there&#8217;s &#8220;no Sunday school, and no choir, and plenty of other things to do.&#8221; But, says Diane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw a smile on the face of a woman who told me that she wanted to give thanks for three years being cancer free. I saw tears on the face of a woman who wanted me to pray for the family of a friend of hers who died last week. I saw a teenager walk into the sanctuary by herself, sit down by herself, and then move to sit down next to her mother&#8217;s best friend, and her friend&#8217;s mother&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reminder that there are people who go to church, not for Sunday school or choir or out of habit, but because it really does something for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane, a Lutheran pastor and blogger, writes about going to church in the summer. Common wisdom is that it&#8217;s not worth going to church in the summer because there&#8217;s &#8220;no Sunday school, and no choir, and plenty of other things to do.&#8221; But, says Diane: I saw a smile on the face of a woman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/08\/church-in-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Church in summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}