{"id":2367,"date":"2020-04-08T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2020-12-13T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:04:52","slug":"a-palm-sunday-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/08\/a-palm-sunday-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"A Palm Sunday Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this COVID lockdown, I miss my church family.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the smiles, the greetings, the fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the serenity of sitting with friends in a quiet sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the sound of my daughter laughing with all her besties.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the feeling of being surrounded by love.<\/p>\n<p>Last year on Palm Sunday, there were children waving palm fronds on the church steps, a donkey patiently accepting their hugs on the front lawn, and a dove of peace soaring towards the sky.<\/p>\n<p>This year, there were my neighbors. My wonderful, giving neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>I love them, too.<br \/>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery42\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PalmSunday3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PalmSunday3.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" alt=\"Basket of Crosses\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PalmSunday3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PalmSunday3-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PalmSunday3-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 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I miss the smiles, the greetings, the fellowship. I miss the serenity of sitting with friends in a quiet sanctuary. I miss the sound of my daughter laughing with all her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/08\/a-palm-sunday-stroll\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,43,25],"tags":[29,12,46,26],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-neighborhood","category-spring","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-holidays","tag-neighborhood","tag-spring","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}