{"id":129,"date":"2007-10-08T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T21:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2007\/10\/08\/blessing-the-animals\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T21:45:28","slug":"blessing-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/10\/08\/blessing-the-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing the animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stmaryschurch.ca\/Blessing%20animals%20Steve.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Blessing of the animals\" height=\"100\" style=\"width: 140px; height: 100px\" title=\"Blessing of the animals\" \/>St. Francis of Assissi has given a lasting legacy in many ways. For all those who are animal lovers, a blessing of the animals reminds us of their importance to humanity, and especially the delight of having a pet.<\/p>\n<p>The Lara Uniting Church has continued the tradition of St. Francis with a special service of blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\/article\/2007\/10\/08\/7627_news.html\" title=\"News article from the Geelong Advertiser\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Francis of Assissi has given a lasting legacy in many ways. For all those who are animal lovers, a blessing of the animals reminds us of their importance to humanity, and especially the delight of having a pet. The Lara Uniting Church has continued the tradition of St. Francis with a special service of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,6,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}