{"id":15769,"date":"2016-03-06T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2016-03-06T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:34:42","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15769","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16030602.jpg\" alt=\"Mothering Sunday\" \/><br \/>\nAt Trinity Church this morning, the children put together bunches of flowers to give to their mothers, and to other ladies in the church. I&#8217;m sure a lot of other churches do something similar on Mothers Day.<\/p>\n<p>Mothering Sunday began as a religious event in the 16th century. The word &#8220;motherhood&#8221; referred to &#8220;Mother Church&#8221;, the main church or cathedral in an area. On the fourth Sunday of Lent, people would have returned to the special services at their Mother Church.<\/p>\n<p>Some people may still return to what they consider their Mother Church for Mothering Sunday. But most of us would struggle to now what is our Mother Church. <\/p>\n<p>Mothers Day has become a day for showing thankfulness to Mothers. One day can never be enough for that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Trinity Church this morning, the children put together bunches of flowers to give to their mothers, and to other ladies in the church. I&#8217;m sure a lot of other churches do something similar on Mothers Day. Mothering Sunday began as a religious event in the 16th century. The word &#8220;motherhood&#8221; referred to &#8220;Mother Church&#8221;, [&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-15769","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\/15769","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=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}