{"id":12550,"date":"2020-11-24T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T00:30:01","slug":"christmas-is-not-saved-in-the-temporal-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/christmas-is-not-saved-in-the-temporal-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is not saved (in the temporal sense)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A more weighty matter than yesterday&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaumc.org\/newsdetail\/14441480\">banned in-person worship until January 10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No candles for Advent (which starts Sunday). No Christmas caroling.\u00a0No children&#8217;s Christmas program.\u00a0No Christmas Eve candlelight service.\u00a0No Epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I say &#8220;no&#8221; very loosely here. Live-streamed pastor-led videos can still happen. Theologically, of course, the Christmas story is still there, congregations or no.<\/p>\n<p>But you probably get what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p><em>This was posted earlier. I didn&#8217;t mean that, as you might tell by the introduction. I&#8217;ve re-timed it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more weighty matter than yesterday&#8230; The Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church has banned in-person worship until January 10. No candles for Advent (which starts Sunday). No Christmas caroling.\u00a0No children&#8217;s Christmas program.\u00a0No Christmas Eve candlelight service.\u00a0No Epiphany. Now, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/christmas-is-not-saved-in-the-temporal-sense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12558,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}