{"id":30662,"date":"2012-02-04T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/risking_frostbite_canadian_anglicans_bless_waters\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:29:00","slug":"risking_frostbite_canadian_anglicans_bless_waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30662","title":{"rendered":"Risking frostbite, Canadian Anglicans bless waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most parts of Canada, January isn&#8217;t the greatest time to hang out by open water. It&#8217;s cold, it&#8217;s windy, and if you stand still too long, your face will freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it&#8217;s worth the discomfort if you&#8217;re there for divine purposes. Such was the case for some Indigenous Anglicans who this year picked up the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Great Blessing of Water. The outdoor event happens on or close to Jan. 19, the feast of Christ&#8217;s baptism known as &#8220;Theophany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2465\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most parts of Canada, January isn&#8217;t the greatest time to hang out by open water. It&#8217;s cold, it&#8217;s windy, and if you stand still too long, your face will freeze. Yet it&#8217;s worth the discomfort if you&#8217;re there for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30662\">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":[36,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662","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=30662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}