{"id":304,"date":"2017-01-05T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2017-01-06T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:36:08","slug":"bread-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/bread-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I tell you a story about what happened the other day? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On December 20<sup>th<\/sup> a new friend came by with a large bag and handed it to me saying, \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019.\u00a0I opened it and the yeasty fragrance of freshly baked bread wafted into the air. It was a loaf of homemade bread that she made in a bread machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I tell you a story?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure.\u201d She replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom baked bread every week in her bread machine. When someone moved into the neighborhood she took a loaf of homemade bread and welcomed them. Every week she took a fresh loaf to her hairdresser as her \u2018tip\u2019. She often baked bread for communion at Circle of Grace. What you don\u2019t know is that today is the second anniversary of my mother\u2019s passing. This loaf of bread must be coming from her through you. It is the most special gift I will receive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is my Christmas story.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I tell you a story about what happened the other day? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On December 20th a new friend came by with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/bread-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bread of Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,17,8,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}