{"id":517,"date":"2004-02-25T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-07-08T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:44:30","slug":"inappropriate-lenten-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate (If Well-Meaning) Lenten Greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone said to me today, in all sincerity, &#8220;Happy Lent!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lent is melancholy.  Lent is about sacrifice and reflection.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was pretty amusing.  Like saying, &#8220;Hey, happy Pearl Harbor Day!&#8221; or something.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a &#8220;happy&#8221; Lent, you&#8217;re missing the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone said to me today, in all sincerity, &#8220;Happy Lent!&#8221; Lent is melancholy. Lent is about sacrifice and reflection. I thought it was pretty amusing. Like saying, &#8220;Hey, happy Pearl Harbor Day!&#8221; or something. If you have a &#8220;happy&#8221; Lent, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15841,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/15841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}