{"id":782770,"date":"2012-01-05T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=782770"},"modified":"2012-01-04T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:51:33","slug":"baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an exciting day, a few weeks back, when my daughter chose to be baptized. I know there was joy in heaven. There was certainly joy in my heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"the Baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6631544303\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7168\/6631544303_1722e51ce9.jpg\" alt=\"the Baptism\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Being Greeted after baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6631544461\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7017\/6631544461_51ed0c4854.jpg\" alt=\"Being Greeted after baptism\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Being greeted by church members and friends after the baptism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Friends and Cousins that Came to the Baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/6631544381\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7143\/6631544381_c0fc481f44.jpg\" alt=\"Friends and Cousins that Came to the Baptism\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Young friends, cousins and siblings that came (some quite a long ways) to witness her public dedication of her life to Christ.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. Luke 15:10<\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an exciting day, a few weeks back, when my daughter chose to be baptized. I know there was joy in heaven. There was certainly joy in my heart. Being greeted by church members and friends after the baptism. Young friends, cousins and siblings that came (some quite a long ways) to witness her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782775,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782770\/revisions\/782775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}