{"id":181173,"date":"2026-04-05T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181173"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:01:36","slug":"holiday-open-thread-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=181173","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Easter-Season-2026.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181170\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Easter-Season-2026.jpg?resize=300%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Easter-Season-2026.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Easter-Season-2026.jpg?resize=500%2C301&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Easter-Season-2026.jpg?w=652&amp;ssl=1 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Christus resurrexit!<\/span> <\/strong>Happy Easter everyone! Today is the first of 50 days of Easter. The first 8 days is considered a continuous celebration (Easter Octave). One of the meanings of this season is the move to abandon our animalistic tendencies (yoke of the beast\/death) in favor of aligning ourselves with God&#8217;s divine purpose for us (eternal life).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christus resurrexit! Happy Easter everyone! Today is the first of 50 days of Easter. The first 8 days is considered a continuous celebration (Easter Octave). One of the meanings of this season is the move to abandon our animalistic tendencies (yoke of the beast\/death) in favor of aligning ourselves with God&#8217;s divine purpose for us [&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-181173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-L89","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181173","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=181173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}