{"id":27028,"date":"2021-04-05T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27028"},"modified":"2021-04-05T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:23:15","slug":"happy-easter-last-time-the-church-met-it-was-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27028","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter. Last time the church met it was Merry Christmas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt was Easter Sunday and Trinity Church building was open for a service for the first time since Christmas Day morning.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040401.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe volunteer gardeners have kept the garden in good trim.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21040402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFlowers on the window sills round the church were lit up by the sun. We had the usual Easter Day hymns, most were videos shown on the screen, but Kate sang one live with Revd. Ian playing the piano. He also preached. The reading was Jesus greeting Mary Magdalene in the garden. She thought it was the gardener until he said &#8216;Mary&#8217;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Easter Sunday and Trinity Church building was open for a service for the first time since Christmas Day morning. The volunteer gardeners have kept the garden in good trim. Flowers on the window sills round the church were lit up by the sun. We had the usual Easter Day hymns, most were videos [&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-27028","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\/27028","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=27028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}