{"id":4807,"date":"2022-12-13T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:21:35","slug":"advent-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Advent Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The wreath symbolized God\u2019s unending Love for His people, using greenery, plants and herbs symbolic of the season or stemming from Biblical times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/04A-Pic-ADVENT-WREATH.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#99ff0000\"><strong><em>Evergreen<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the crown of thorns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Boxwood<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the everlasting quality of God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Straw<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the Nativity of our Lord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Pomanders<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; original sin, the death and burial of Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Dried Orange Peel<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the bitter gall of the Crucifixion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>English Ivy<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; communion with the Anglican church&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Grapevine\/Wheat<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the bread and wine of the Eucharist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Pine Cones<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; the Resurrection\/ the breaking forth from the tomb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Blue Hydrangeas<\/em><\/strong> -\u2014&gt; Kingship of Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joan Konecny<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wreath symbolized God\u2019s unending Love for His people, using greenery, plants and herbs symbolic of the season or stemming from Biblical times [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8],"tags":[71,69],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sacristy","category-liturgy","tag-advent","tag-wreath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}