{"id":280,"date":"2020-02-26T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:41:29","slug":"lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The season of Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and runs for the 40 days until Easter. It is a time of preparation for the celebration of Easter, and can include prayer, repentance, and self-denial.<\/p>\n<p>The liturgical colour for Lent is purple, which signifies penitence.\u00a0The pulpit, altar and lectern are decorated in purple to remind us of this penitential season.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and runs for the 40 days until Easter. It is a time of preparation for the celebration of Easter, and can include prayer, repentance, and self-denial. The liturgical colour for Lent is purple, which signifies penitence.\u00a0The pulpit, altar and lectern are decorated in purple to remind us &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lent<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stthomas.connor.anglican.org\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}