{"id":7914,"date":"2015-04-05T06:16:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2015-04-07T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T12:19:18","slug":"sunrise-easter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Easter Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7916\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7916\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise Easter Service\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7916\" data-wp-pid=\"7916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150405_100752.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise Easter Service<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of our favorite aspects of the celebration of Easter is the sunrise service at Fourth Presbyterian Church. For a long time Rock Creek didn&#8217;t have a sunrise service and in general doesn&#8217;t make as big a deal of Easter as some churches (and hardly mentions Palm Sunday at all). So, we go to the church where we met, and where Cathy&#8217;s mom still goes. Dorothy knows quite a few folks there, as well, having participated in their youth group quite a bit over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I set my alarm clock to the wrong time and we only got there as the service was almost over. Previous years we got it right and this year I got it right, again. It was a chilly 40&#xb0;F this morning, which is cool but not really bitter and certainly not as cold as it has been in some previous years.<\/p>\n<p>I only took a few pictures. It is a church service, after all. In the first few the sky is nearly black. A little later it was the most beautiful, luminous blue. This is one of the early pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite aspects of the celebration of Easter is the sunrise service at Fourth Presbyterian Church. For a long time Rock Creek didn&#8217;t have a sunrise service and in general doesn&#8217;t make as big a deal of Easter as some churches (and hardly mentions Palm Sunday at all). So, we go to the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7914\">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":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914"}],"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=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}