{"id":2793,"date":"2016-12-31T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2016-12-31T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:56:52","slug":"dec-4-2016-sweet-expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/31\/dec-4-2016-sweet-expectation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec-4-2016: Sweet Expectation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2802\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev.jpg 184w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sermon-icon-dev-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2793-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.04.16-expectation.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.04.16-expectation.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12.04.16-expectation.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em><strong>Sweet Expectation<\/strong><br \/>\nRev. Debra Thorne<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Savouring possibilities that life may bring is a delicious joy, to be held lightly and released freely when expectations are not met; the wisdom comes from knowing when to hold on and when to let go. How can we hold on to a sweet expectation in these dark days of winter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Expectation Rev. Debra Thorne Savouring possibilities that life may bring is a delicious joy, to be held lightly and released freely when expectations are not met; the wisdom comes from knowing when to hold on and when to let go. How can we hold on to a sweet expectation in these dark days of [&hellip;]<\/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-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","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=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}