{"id":13648,"date":"2017-12-24T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13648"},"modified":"2017-12-29T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:00:56","slug":"cross-community-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13648","title":{"rendered":"Cross Community Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13650\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13650\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cross Community Christmas\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13650\" data-wp-pid=\"13650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_20171224_149125.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross Community Christmas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cross Community Church of Rockville is (so far) a smallish church. Since a lot of folks travel for Christmas, we expected a relatively smaller group on Christmas eve (morning). So, pastor Ben and his wife hosted church this week at their home. This is our Christmas Eve Morning service (and there are more people around the corner and around me where I&#8217;m standing). If it looks like a lot of folks are on their phones, that&#8217;s because they are using them as their &#x2018;hymn book&#x2019; as we sing. Also note that we were invited to come in our jammies, which a few did. We&#8217;re a pretty casual church in general. All the more so when we&#8217;re at home. My apologies for the title. I generally absolutely abhor annoying alliteration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross Community Church of Rockville is (so far) a smallish church. Since a lot of folks travel for Christmas, we expected a relatively smaller group on Christmas eve (morning). So, pastor Ben and his wife hosted church this week at their home. This is our Christmas Eve Morning service (and there are more people around &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=13648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[33,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13654,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13648\/revisions\/13654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}