{"id":1871,"date":"2013-08-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/christening-and-baptism\/infant-baptism-much-more-than-ritual.html"},"modified":"2013-08-10T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:59:00","slug":"infant-baptism-much-more-than-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/christening-and-baptism\/infant-baptism-much-more-than-ritual.html","title":{"rendered":"Infant baptism much more than ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across my years of ministry many young parents have asked me to \u201cchristen\u201d their new baby. Though&#8221; christening&#8221; actually refers to the giving of a Christian name &#8230; My Baptist friends do not but prefer to help parents &#8220;dedicate&#8221; a new baby to the &#8230;<br \/>\nSpecial Occasions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&amp;aid=&amp;tid=a34bf19c6e7f4a9597dc5957148540ba&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oanow.com%2Fopinion%2Fcolumns%2Farticle_81f415f8-023a-11e3-acd4-0019bb30f31a.html&amp;c=gKAAZxoa8SYk3cNhvvGEB7KhmX-amGXj0Y9CX6Nd0u0&amp;mkt=en-us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Special Moments continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baby Christening Occasions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialmomentshome.com\/christening.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Special Moments Baby Christening Ideas <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across my years of ministry many young parents have asked me to \u201cchristen\u201d their new baby. Though&#8221; christening&#8221; actually refers to the giving of a Christian name &#8230; My Baptist friends do not but prefer to help parents &#8220;dedicate&#8221; a new baby to the &#8230; Special Occasions: Special Moments continue reading Baby Christening Occasions: Special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/christening-and-baptism\/infant-baptism-much-more-than-ritual.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infant baptism much more than ritual<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christening-and-baptism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}