{"id":307,"date":"2020-03-01T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2020-03-01T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:02:29","slug":"snowflakes-and-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/snowflakes-and-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflakes and Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ash Wednesday, as we gathered in the sanctuary to worship at the beginning of lent with the sign of the cross made with ashes, there were snowflakes in the air.  They were modest and evanescent but still there in the chilled air.  Snowflakes on Ash Wednesday are not common in middle Tennessee but their association with beginning of the transit season from wilderness to the light of Easter was fitting and a joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"308\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/?attachment_id=308\" class=\"wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00240-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00243-scaled-e1583081107891-1024x1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"309\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/DSC00243-scaled-e1583081107891.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/?attachment_id=309\" class=\"wp-image-309\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash Wednesday, as we gathered in the sanctuary to worship at the beginning of lent with the sign of the cross made with ashes, there were snowflakes in the air. They were modest and evanescent but still there in the chilled air. Snowflakes on Ash Wednesday are not common in middle Tennessee but their association &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/snowflakes-and-ashes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snowflakes and Ashes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pgctn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}