{"id":2027,"date":"2015-12-13T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:23:46","slug":"sometimes-a-blue-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/sometimes-a-blue-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec-13-2015: Sometimes a Blue Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2.jpg\" alt=\"sermon-icon-dec2\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2.jpg 184w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sermon-icon-dec2-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2027-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12.13.15-BlueChristmas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12.13.15-BlueChristmas.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12.13.15-BlueChristmas.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Rev. Debra Thorne<\/em><br \/>\nAs we approach the longest night of the year, we pause and touch the tender places of loss and hurt. The Blue Christmas Service is a time for acknowledging both personal pain and the suffering in the world, that we may make ready our hearts for the return of hope and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Debra Thorne As we approach the longest night of the year, we pause and touch the tender places of loss and hurt. The Blue Christmas Service is a time for acknowledging both personal pain and the suffering in the world, that we may make ready our hearts for the return of hope and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}