{"id":263,"date":"2017-04-10T03:24:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T03:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2017-04-10T03:24:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T03:24:55","slug":"palm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donkey-1342349_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donkey-1342349_960_720.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donkey-1342349_960_720.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donkey-1342349_960_720.jpg?resize=768%2C513 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donkey-1342349_960_720.jpg?w=960 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, during the Sunday School hour, the kids made a headband with floppy ears that stuck up. As a prank, the ushers came down the aisle to collect the offering, all wearing a set of these bunny ears. I laughed and, to show I was not phased, used it as a transition into my sermon time. After they departed, and before the sermon, I&#8217;m thinking <em>bunny ears, Easter<\/em>. I waxed eloquent about adapting popular culture to teach spiritual truths, IE the Easter Egg and Rabbit, symbols of new life etc. Later, I found out that the ears were donkey ears. Donkey. Jesus riding. Palm Sunday. Palm smacks forehead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, during the Sunday School hour, the kids made a headband with floppy ears that stuck up. As a prank, the ushers came down the aisle to collect the offering, all wearing a set of these bunny ears. I laughed and, to show I was not phased, used it as a transition into my sermon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7XNu6-4f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.attemptgreatthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}