{"id":3809,"date":"2017-12-20T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:06:03","slug":"advent-and-only-a-few-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Advent and only a few days to go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?attachment_id=3354\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Purple-scarf1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Purple-scarf1-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Purple-scarf1-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Purple-scarf1-900x1205.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Purple-scarf1.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Sitting at the computer and knowing the daylight will soon be going, even though it is only 2.00pm, brings thoughts to mind of all those without a warm home.<\/p>\n<p>A world full of anguish and uncertain futures.<\/p>\n<p>I have just visited a parishioner, Pearl, who I should have seen much sooner. She lives on her own and wanted to pray for all those who are on their own over Christmas. Her family are close but her life has become lonely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A prayer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Close the door of hate, and open the door<\/p>\n<p>Of love all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at the computer and knowing the daylight will soon be going, even though it is only 2.00pm, brings thoughts to mind of all those without a warm home. A world full of anguish and uncertain futures. I have just visited a parishioner, Pearl, who I should have seen much sooner. She lives on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[33,34,53],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-gayton-group-of-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","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=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}