{"id":51904,"date":"2015-10-02T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/?p=51904"},"modified":"2015-10-02T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:08:15","slug":"blessing-of-the-animals-in-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/2015\/10\/02\/blessing-of-the-animals-in-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing of the Animals in Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/10\/jennifer_troy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-51905 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/10\/jennifer_troy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jennifer_troy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Chapel went to the dogs today, and the cats, and the hedgehogs\u2026 as we commemorated St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals, with our annual &#8220;Blessing of the Animals&#8221; in daily chapel. \u00a0Around 150 people gathered to hear Jennifer Troy, Director of Paws for Learning, speak about the importance of animals\u00a0in our lives to help us de-stress and deal with life&#8217;s difficulties. \u00a0Each animal in attendance was brought forward by their person for a special blessing from Pastor Sonja Hagander and\u00a0Pastor Justin Lind-Ayres. Especially memorable were the moments when Charlie, Jennifer&#8217;s 170-pound Great Dane, decided to give some special attention to folks in the front row!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel went to the dogs today, and the cats, and the hedgehogs\u2026 as we commemorated St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals, with our annual &#8220;Blessing of the Animals&#8221; in daily chapel. \u00a0Around 150 people gathered to hear Jennifer Troy, Director of Paws for Learning, speak about the importance of animals\u00a0in our lives to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51906,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51904\/revisions\/51906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}