{"id":44281,"date":"2014-12-11T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=44281"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:57:22","slug":"church-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/church-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing over from Advent to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hopeth.jpg\" alt=\"hopeth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44283\" \/>First Congregational Church<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hope.jpg\" alt=\"hope\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44285\" \/>Back in spring 2014 the hollow crucifix in front of the First Congregational Church in St. Johns held panels designed by T. Zuker. The cross was designed so as to build the story one week at a time and to invite people to discover some key passages from the Bible.<br \/>\nAfter a respite during summer and the fall, now the cross has risen again. During the Advent season the panels invite people to think about the parts of the Bible keyed to the coming of God in human form by His holy birth.<br \/>\nStop by 100 Maple Avenue in downtown St. Johns, west of Clinton County Courthouse to see each week&#8217;s new panel join the rest of story.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/advent.jpg\" alt=\"advent\" width=\"432\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44286\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Congregational Church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}