{"id":5902,"date":"2019-03-27T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2019-04-17T21:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:54:43","slug":"mothering-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/mothers-day\/mothering-sunday.html","title":{"rendered":"Mothering Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s love<br \/>\nto make a house a home,<br \/>\nA place to be remembered,<br \/>\nno matter where we roam.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s patience,<br \/>\nto bring a child up right,<br \/>\nAnd her courage and her cheerfulness<br \/>\nto make a dark day bright.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s thoughtfulness<br \/>\nto mend the heart&#8217;s deep &#8220;hurts,&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd her skill and her endurance<br \/>\nto mend little socks and shirts.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s kindness<br \/>\nto forgive us when we err,<br \/>\nTo sympathize in trouble<br \/>\nand bow her head in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s wisdom<br \/>\nto recognize our needs<br \/>\nAnd to give us reassurance<br \/>\nby her loving words and deeds.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a Mother&#8217;s endless faith,<br \/>\nher confidence and trust<br \/>\nTo guide us through the pitfalls<br \/>\nof selfishness and lust.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why in all this world<br \/>\nthere could not be another<br \/>\nWho could fulfill God&#8217;s purpose<br \/>\nas completely as a Mother!<\/p>\n<p>~ <strong>Helen Steiner Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2019 What is a Mother It takes a Mother&#8217;s love to make a house a home, A place to be remembered, no matter where we roam. It takes a Mother&#8217;s patience, to bring a child up right, And her courage and her cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. It takes a Mother&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/mothers-day\/mothering-sunday.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mothering Sunday<\/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":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","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=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}