{"id":783324,"date":"2013-10-22T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=783324"},"modified":"2013-10-22T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:48:28","slug":"an-important-day-a-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/an-important-day-a-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"An Important Day \u2014 A baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently our second child decided that he would like to give his heart to Jesus in a public way. It was a very special day for not only him, but for me too. It is my hope and prayer that all of my children will give their hearts to Jesus as children, as teens, as young adults, as elderly people \u2014 their whole lives. Baptisms are always so special, but there is something extra special when they are your own children.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, it was so bright, that it was difficult getting decent pictures, but I still treasure them, so I&#8217;m sharing.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/10423611164\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Baptism\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7322\/10423611164_c1f9ca5bb9.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/10423633776\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Baptism\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7341\/10423633776_09dcbc5226.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Being greeted by family and friends after baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/10423779573\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Being greeted by family and friends after baptism\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7293\/10423779573_37d1ccbb24.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Being greeted by grandpa and sis after baptism by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/10423637906\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Being greeted by grandpa and sis after baptism\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7359\/10423637906_177e77bd85.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently our second child decided that he would like to give his heart to Jesus in a public way. It was a very special day for not only him, but for me too. It is my hope and prayer that all of my children will give their hearts to Jesus as children, as teens, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783324"}],"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=783324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783326,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783324\/revisions\/783326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}