{"id":778,"date":"2015-02-17T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T22:53:53","slug":"thoughts-on-the-beginning-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/thoughts-on-the-beginning-of-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the beginning of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere I read a line that said: Instead of giving things up for Lent, take something on.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good word. But if you still want to give something up, here are some ideas:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gs4nj.org\/40-things-the-give-up-for-lent-the-list\/\">Forty things to give up for Lent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a &#8220;college-friendly&#8221; list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usforacle.com\/news\/view.php\/860814\/8-Simple-college-friendly-things-to-give\">things to give up<\/a>. Here&#8217;s another list that reminds us it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/feb\/16\/lent-rebranded-religious-movember-give-up\">not a second crack at New Year&#8217;s resolutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere I read a line that said: Instead of giving things up for Lent, take something on. That&#8217;s a good word. But if you still want to give something up, here are some ideas:\u00a0Forty things to give up for Lent. Here&#8217;s a &#8220;college-friendly&#8221; list of things to give up. Here&#8217;s another list that reminds us &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/17\/thoughts-on-the-beginning-of-lent\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[744,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}