{"id":2339,"date":"2010-04-02T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2010-04-02T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T01:14:57","slug":"celebrate-christianitys-biggest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/celebrate-christianitys-biggest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate-Christianity&#039;s Biggest Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say if you can&#8217;t preach on Easter, you just can&#8217;t preach!<\/p>\n<p>This being Good Friday- it&#8217;s a downer day, of course. IT&#8217;s supposed to be. It&#8217;s supposed to be reflective. Sober. Pensive. Mindful.<\/p>\n<p>Everything changes on Sunday. Easter Sunday was the one time my tiny chapel congregation sang with some pep. &#8220;Up from the grave he arose!&#8221; The tempo would get close to 4\/4 time. The dirge-like hymns turned positive, and had some spark. (We were about as \u00a0non-charismatic\u00a0as a church could be, but on Easter Sunday, I&#8217;m pretty sure I could heard a clap or two of exuberance.)<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday-Let&#8217;s PARTY! Let&#8217;s remember this is our joy, God&#8217;s glory! Death is defeated, forgiveness and pardon is complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It might even be time for a fantastical drawing. You like?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2340\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/unicorn59kb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2340\" title=\"Unicorn59KB\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/unicorn59kb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/unicorn59kb.jpg 336w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/unicorn59kb-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/unicorn59kb-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Easter is a BIG Day! Celebrate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unicorn, rainbow, Jesus drawing: How to party for Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[590,1064,1066,1392,6538,41,1920,2487,2762,2914,3551],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-celebrating-easter","tag-easter","tag-easter-message","tag-funny-jesus-drawing","tag-humor","tag-jesus","tag-kids-art","tag-party","tag-rainbow","tag-rose-from-the-tomb","tag-unicorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}