{"id":93964,"date":"2020-01-31T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93964"},"modified":"2020-01-03T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:09:41","slug":"weekend-open-thread-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93964","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93979\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Candlemas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Candlemas.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Candlemas-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One candle lights multiple candles. These candles, in turn, lights additional candles. This is a basic concept of &#8220;spreading wisdom&#8221;. (thisischurch.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>February 2 is seen by some Christians as the 40th day &#8220;of&#8221; Christmas, known as Candlemas. This was the time that Jesus was presented to the temple. Outside of church practices, most Americans know it as &#8220;Groundhog&#8217;s Day&#8221;. On a sarcastic note&#8230; Be prepared for &#8220;protests&#8221; if the groundhog does not decide in favor of some people&#8217;s preferred outcome. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2 is seen by some Christians as the 40th day &#8220;of&#8221; Christmas, known as Candlemas. &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93964\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93981,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93964\/revisions\/93981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}