{"id":18,"date":"2014-05-11T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=18"},"modified":"2014-05-11T08:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T17:45:39","slug":"may-11-mothers-day-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"May 11 &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"May 11 &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day Observed\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=18\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>Today I attended a church where a friend of mine is pastor.\u00a0 She was presenting her Holy Humor Service.\u00a0 It was fun to see her action leading worship.\u00a0 It was also inspirational to see how much the members of the church cared for their mothers.\u00a0 One thing I enjoyed about the service is the balance it contained.\u00a0 Mother&#8217;s were respected and thanked but the institution of motherhood was not placed on a pedestal.\u00a0 Not a lot of memories of my mother are pleasant ones, and therefore Mother&#8217;s Day is a difficult holiday for me to get into on an emotional basis.\u00a0 The truth no matter what our relationship with our mother is or was; none of us would be without our Mother&#8217;s.\u00a0 So I pray that you had a meaningful time today as you relfected on your mother!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended a church where a friend of mine is pastor.\u00a0 She was presenting her Holy Humor Service.\u00a0 It was fun to see her action leading worship.\u00a0 It was also inspirational to see how much the members of the church cared for their mothers.\u00a0 One thing I enjoyed about the service is the balance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 11 &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day Observed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}