{"id":10136,"date":"2018-12-17T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca?p=10136"},"modified":"2019-01-14T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:51:43","slug":"counting-our-blessings-this-christmas-and-praying-for-a-peaceful-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/counting-our-blessings-this-christmas-and-praying-for-a-peaceful-2019\/10136","title":{"rendered":"Counting our blessings this Christmas and praying for a peaceful 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often, when watching the news on TV or reading them on a tablet, a thought comes to mind: how lucky we are to live here. And so much more comfortably than the folks standing in front our church on that\u00a0 winter day, more than a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/morrison13750.tripod.com\/\">History of Shrewsbury<\/a> written by Kathleen Morrison. Many Shrewsbury residents moved early to Dunany as did the builders and owners of our house &#8211; the Gains &#8211;\u00a0 after having married there in 1936. It is now the vanished village.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Paul-prior-to-building-of-porch-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Paul-prior-to-building-of-porch-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Paul-prior-to-building-of-porch-2-2.jpg 968w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Paul-prior-to-building-of-porch-2-2-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Paul-prior-to-building-of-porch-2-2-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Counting our blessings, praying and hoping for a better future for the millions of people suffering around the world seems an appropriate theme for our Christmas Eve services &#8211; Family at 4 and Evening at 8.<\/p>\n<p>It is with these thoughts in mind that the directors of your Association wish you all a joyous Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, when watching the news on TV or reading them on a tablet, a thought comes to mind: how lucky we are to live here. And so much more comfortably than the folks standing in front our church on that\u00a0&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}