{"id":830,"date":"2014-02-23T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=830"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:43:27","slug":"steeple-cross-legacy-22314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Steeple Cross Legacy (2\/23\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice the cross hanging on the wall of our church&#8217;s narthex?\u00a0 It&#8217;s not there for decoration&#8230; there&#8217;s a story behind it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a reminder of how God has guided our church through history; from its inception, through the days of the Pitman Camp Meeting, the &#8220;glory days&#8221; of the 1950&#8217;s when 200 kids filled the junior choir loft, through the fire in 2003, the construction of our current building, through the present.\u00a0 And- into the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published in 2014&#8230;<br \/>\nThe cross hanging in the Narthex was once high upon our steeple overlooking the center of town.  It stood as a visible  symbol of our church until the building under it was destroyed by fire in 2003.  As we consider our history, we look to the past to draw inspiration for the future.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,53,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-churchhistory","category-god-moments","category-godprints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17177,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/17177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}