{"id":4101,"date":"2016-02-10T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2016-02-24T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:29:05","slug":"lent-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lent-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2016: 40Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year for Lent I decided to &#8220;Do Lent Generously&#8221;, joining many others from around the world with <a href=\"http:\/\/40acts.org.uk\/\">40Acts.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first challenge, on Wednesday, February 10, is to draw circles &#8211; family, friends, community and wider. I haven&#8217;t had an opportunity to draw yet, but have spent some time thinking about these circles, how they overlap, holding them in prayer. I have used my <a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/prayer-beads\/\" target=\"_blank\">prayer beads<\/a> to name and pray for those circles too.<\/p>\n<p>And here is another reflection specifically for Ash Wednesday that I found particularly helpful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkingfaith.org\/articles\/not-giving-too-easily-thoughts-ash-wednesday\">&#8220;on not giving up too easily&#8221; from the Jesuits in Britain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4118\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4118\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lent-2016\/img_2127\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?fit=900%2C675\" data-orig-size=\"900,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1455261043&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;3&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2127\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?fit=525%2C394\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4118 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374-600x450.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"IMG_2127\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?resize=600%2C450 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?resize=150%2C113 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?resize=400%2C300 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_2127-e1455280298374.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year for Lent I decided to &#8220;Do Lent Generously&#8221;, joining many others from around the world with 40Acts.org.uk. The first challenge, on Wednesday, February 10, is to draw circles &#8211; family, friends, community and wider. I haven&#8217;t had an opportunity to draw yet, but have spent some time thinking about these circles, how they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lent-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lent 2016: 40Acts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37],"tags":[89,87],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-update","tag-40acts","tag-lent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}