{"id":15502,"date":"2016-01-15T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T23:13:25","slug":"abingdon-alpha-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Alpha Launch Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011401.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Alpha\" \/><br \/>\nThere have been banners around town for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonalpha.org\/\">Abingdon Alpha<\/a> Courses<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011403.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Alpha\" \/><br \/>\nThere was an introductory meeting with a free meal at the Spice Valley Restaurant this evening. An invited speaker told people how his life had been turned around after he went to an Alpha course, and found out about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16011402.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Alpha\" \/><br \/>\nAlpha is a ten week introduction to the Christian Faith. Each week there is a talk at the start and then a discussion.<\/p>\n<p>133 people were there for the launch event &#8211; and there is room for more at any of the venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been banners around town for the annual Abingdon Alpha Courses There was an introductory meeting with a free meal at the Spice Valley Restaurant this evening. An invited speaker told people how his life had been turned around after he went to an Alpha course, and found out about God, Jesus, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}