{"id":2231,"date":"2009-06-23T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T00:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/06\/23\/well-this-is-much-better-than-donuts-afterwards\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T00:13:19","slug":"well-this-is-much-better-than-donuts-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/06\/well-this-is-much-better-than-donuts-afterwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Well this is much better than donuts afterwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">[The Rt Rev John Inge, the Bishop of Worcester] argued that the free beer was intended to be symbolic of &#8220;the generosity of God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Men at St Stephen&#8217;s church in Barbourne, Worcester, will be handed bottles of beer by children during the service. A prayer will be said for the fathers before the gifts are distributed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ven Roger Morris, archdeacon of Worcester, who will be leading the service at St Stephen&#8217;s today, said that it was a practical way of sending a message to fathers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see any other time that we can stop and remember fathers, and this is a gesture saying &#8216;Here&#8217;s something that will bless you,'&#8221; he said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2009\/06\/22\/fill-a-pew-get-a-brew\/\" target=\"_blank\">[reference]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary use beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Rt Rev John Inge, the Bishop of Worcester] argued that the free beer was intended to be symbolic of &#8220;the generosity of God&#8221;. Men at St Stephen&#8217;s church in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}