{"id":17,"date":"2014-03-09T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:57:54","slug":"our-online-retreat-begins-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Province of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to settle on a tagline for this new blog, but until I wrap my wit around it just know that whenever you visit this space, you will find faith, fellowship, light and laughter &#8212; honesty, mirth and grace.\u00a0 <em>The Province of Joy<\/em> is only made more beautiful by your presence, so feel at home.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re here!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Upcoming Lent Retreat <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This online retreat begins March 17th with the opening reflection on the first chapter in Sarah Parson&#8217;s <em>A Clearing Season<\/em>.\u00a0 Each week you will find reflections posted here at <em>The Province of Joy<\/em> and if you are interested in writing one, please let me know.\u00a0 All are welcome to blog in this space!<\/p>\n<p>Do not worry if you&#8217;re late to the <a title=\"I'm Planning a Lent Party, and You're All Invited via @2or3littlebirds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twoorthreelittlebirds.com\/?p=3157\" target=\"_blank\">Lent Party<\/a>.\u00a0 There is still\u00a0 plenty of time to purchase a copy of her book (it&#8217;s about 90 pages and $12) and join our discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to settle on a tagline for this new blog, but until I wrap my wit around it just know that whenever you visit this space, you will find faith, fellowship, light and laughter &#8212; honesty, mirth and grace.\u00a0 The Province of Joy is only made more beautiful by your presence, so feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to The Province of Joy!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,3,7,4],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-lent","category-prayer","category-simplifying","category-spirituality","tag-a-clearing-season","tag-lent-retreat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}