{"id":32462,"date":"2012-05-12T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mothers_day_packs_church_pews_behind_christmas_easter\/"},"modified":"2012-05-12T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T18:01:08","slug":"mothers_day_packs_church_pews_behind_christmas_easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32462","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Mother&#39;s Day packs church pews behind Christmas, Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold the chocolate and flowers. Hold the brunch reservations. What mom may really want for Mother&#8217;s Day is for the whole gang to go to church first.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors finds Mother&#8217;s Day ranks right after Easter and Christmas in peak church attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Father&#8217;s Day, however, is near the bottom of the poll although both holidays were founded as church events more than a century ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-05-12\/church-mothers-day\/54889418\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold the chocolate and flowers. Hold the brunch reservations. What mom may really want for Mother&#8217;s Day is for the whole gang to go to church first. A new survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors finds Mother&#8217;s Day ranks right after<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32462\">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":[48,39,50,209,101,183,98,184,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","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=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}