{"id":3448,"date":"2016-03-20T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T10:06:58","slug":"palm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3448","title":{"rendered":"Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image2-2.png\" alt=\"Image 2\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Palm Sunday<br \/>\nMark11:1-11<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Turmoil, Trouble and Triumph<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Palm Sunday is a real marker in the church year. We go from Lent and within a week are at the cross. A week full of downs and ups, but it starts on a high note.<\/strong><br \/>\nA day of triumph, a welcome into the city of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Palm crosses remind us today and through the year about this very day.<\/p>\n<p>You know what it&#8217;s like before a Bank Holiday, people travelling everywhere, more shopping, rushing around, bit of panic buying or in our case panic petrol buying\u2026.<br \/>\nWell, Jerusalem would have been a bit like that. The Feast of the Passover was at the end of the week, a big event for Jewish people then and now.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the Jewish leaders were getting worried; lots of people would be coming to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover, crowds expected everywhere. The last thing they wanted was this new prophet\/teacher causing a problem, they really couldn&#8217;t be doing with it.<\/p>\n<p>Today he would have been called a disruptive influence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a title=\"Faith Goes Walkabout sermons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?page_id=3443\">sermons&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Sunday Mark11:1-11 Turmoil, Trouble and Triumph &nbsp; Palm Sunday is a real marker in the church year. We go from Lent and within a week are at the cross. A week full of downs and ups, but it starts on a high note. A day of triumph, a welcome into the city of Jerusalem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,117,31,32],"tags":[118,131],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-easter","category-pastoral","category-theological","tag-easter","tag-palm-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}