{"id":3326,"date":"2010-02-07T22:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:31:59","slug":"preaching-to-the-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"Preaching to the choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Church is always a <em>joyous<\/em> event for us.\u00a0 An Episcopal service with weekly communion can get pretty long for children, but I really don&#8217;t worry about the girls.\u00a0 Our church family knows my girls and Mel, <em>for that matter<\/em>, and understands us.\u00a0 (Or so I hope.)\u00a0 Sometimes, we get the giggles, usually, because of Mary Clare.\u00a0 Today, however, McCanless and I didn&#8217;t have Mary Clare to blame.\u00a0 It was early in the service and she was still in the nursery.\u00a0 McCanless decided to stay with me instead of going to children&#8217;s chapel; so it was just the two of us there in our usual pew, right in front, right under Father Michael.\u00a0 We were reading the program and I was having her follow along with the words as I pointed to each one.\u00a0 We sang, &#8220;Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 McCanless began to belt out giggles.\u00a0<strong><em> Loud, contagious giggles. <\/em><\/strong> She couldn&#8217;t help herself.\u00a0 It truly was one of those non-stop, involuntary laughs.\u00a0 As I whispered and questioned her, she said, &#8220;I know it isn&#8217;t right, but we just said that Jesus has holes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just couldn&#8217;t help myself as I, too, began to laugh and I just so happened to notice a few choir members laughing along with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church is always a joyous event for us.\u00a0 An Episcopal service with weekly communion can get pretty long for children, but I really don&#8217;t worry about the girls.\u00a0 Our church family knows my girls and Mel, for that matter, and understands us.\u00a0 (Or so I hope.)\u00a0 Sometimes, we get the giggles, usually, because of Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}