{"id":3932,"date":"2024-11-23T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2024-11-23T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:35:57","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often think that Thanksgiving is the most sacred holiday in the Unitarian Universalist year. \u00a0A holiday that celebrates gratitude, through the ritual act of gathering around a shared meal, with a liturgy of saying, &#8220;thank you&#8221; is spirituality at its core. \u00a0Spirituality begins with acknowledging our dependence on and inclusion in a &#8220;something greater than ourselves&#8221;. \u00a0Whether human community, the Earth, a personal God, or something else, recognizing the gifts we receive from a source beyond our own selves is the foundation of every other spiritual virtue. \u00a0I pray you enjoy your Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often think that Thanksgiving is the most sacred holiday in the Unitarian Universalist year. \u00a0A holiday that celebrates gratitude,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3932\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanksgiving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministers-messages"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}