{"id":137506,"date":"2023-02-24T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137506"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:48:21","slug":"weekend-open-tread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137506","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Tread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-Palm-Sunday-messages-and-quotes-1264981.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137507\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-Palm-Sunday-messages-and-quotes-1264981.jpg?resize=300%2C178&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-Palm-Sunday-messages-and-quotes-1264981.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-Palm-Sunday-messages-and-quotes-1264981.jpg?resize=500%2C297&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-Palm-Sunday-messages-and-quotes-1264981.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras, was Ash Wednesday. This is the first day of the Lenten season, which comes before Eastertide. It&#8217;s like the Advent season that comes before Christmastide. Ash Wednesday, and the Lenten season, are not just observed by the Roman Catholics. It is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/ash-wednesday-everything-you-need-know-about-first-day-lent\">observed<\/a> by Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, and Lutherans. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Wednesday, the day after Mardi Gras, was Ash Wednesday. This is the first day of the Lenten season, which comes before Eastertide. It&#8217;s like the Advent season that comes before Christmastide. Ash Wednesday, and the Lenten season, are not just observed by the Roman Catholics. It is also observed by Methodists, Baptists, Anglicans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-zLQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}