{"id":11459,"date":"2009-02-26T03:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_salem_massachusetts_clergy_take_a_fresh_look_at_the_season_of_lent\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T03:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:35:05","slug":"in_salem_massachusetts_clergy_take_a_fresh_look_at_the_season_of_lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11459","title":{"rendered":"In Salem Massachusetts Clergy take a fresh look at the season of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, when many people tend to respond by boycotting candy, soda and other guilty pleasures until Easter. Because that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re supposed to do, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not quite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of giving something up is to create a feeling of emptiness in yourself and open yourself to God&#8217;s presence,&#8221; said the Rev. Mike Duda of the First Church in Wenham.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a time of deep personal reflection, said the Rev. Manny Faria of St. Peter&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Beverly. &#8220;It&#8217;s taking stock of our own lives, and seeing where we fall short and what we need to work on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the message can often get lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/punews\/local_story_055234828.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Christian season of Lent, when many people tend to respond by boycotting candy, soda and other guilty pleasures until Easter. Because that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re supposed to do, right? Not quite. &#8220;The idea<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11459\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,42,187,66,569,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-lent","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}