{"id":3642,"date":"2016-02-07T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:04:56","slug":"making-the-great-fast-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=3642","title":{"rendered":"Making the Great Fast Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although this may be an old fashion approach to observing the Great Fast, I would like to suggest this practice on this first week. Why not decide to put aside each day a certain amount of money. Then for 40 days save up those funds and, at the end of the Great Fast, donate that amount to a charity of your choice. I would suggest that it is a charity that helps those in need or those who have experienced abuse of some kind. We practiced this when I was a kid and it seemed to make Lent a whole lot more real.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cross_vine.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2448\" src=\"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cross_vine.gif\" alt=\"cross_vine\" width=\"152\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this may be an old fashion approach to observing the Great Fast, I would like to suggest this practice on this first week. Why not decide to put aside each day a certain amount of money. Then for 40 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=3642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-lent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}