{"id":4762,"date":"2020-09-12T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:32:07","slug":"dec-22-2019-the-gift-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/12\/dec-22-2019-the-gift-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec-22-2019: The Gift of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-square wp-image-4799\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-20195.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4762-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/22-December-Winter-Solstice.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/22-December-Winter-Solstice.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/22-December-Winter-Solstice.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><i>Service Leaders: Worship Services Committee<\/i><br \/>\nAs we awake from the longest night of the year, the Worship Services Committee invites you to consider the gifts of darkness. As a society, we seek the light and fear the darkness\u2014both literally and metaphorically. In so doing, imbalances can be created on a personal, societal and planetary level. Let\u2019s explore together what can be gained by entering the darkness and embracing its gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service Leaders: Worship Services Committee As we awake from the longest night of the year, the Worship Services Committee invites you to consider the gifts of darkness. As a society, we seek the light and fear the darkness\u2014both literally and metaphorically. In so doing, imbalances can be created on a personal, societal and planetary level. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","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=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}