{"id":88,"date":"2011-03-17T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/choosingcomedy.wordpress.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-03-17T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:10:00","slug":"its-a-great-day-to-be-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"It’s a great day to be green!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top o’ the morning to you!<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s St. Patrick’s Day, a day of all things green and Irish.\u00a0 A day when everyone wants to be<\/strong><\/em> Irish.<\/p>\n

Did you know St. Patrick wasn’t?
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Tis true.\u00a0 He was from Scotland and his parents were Romans.\u00a0 Irish raiders captured him as a teenager and took him to Ireland where he was sold as a slave.\u00a0 He tended sheep as a slave for about 6 years before escaping and making his was back to Scotland and his family.<\/p>\n

Then he studied in the church.\u00a0 And after being ordained as a bishop he did a most unusual thing…<\/p>\n

He returned to the land of his captivity to share the good news.<\/p>\n

That’s right he spent the remainder of his life, 40 years, going throughout Ireland telling people about Jesus.\u00a0 Sharing the gospel.<\/p>\n

I can think of no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than to share his message with you.\u00a0 Well, I’m sure it didn’t sound quite like this, after all his audience spoke an ancient Celtic language….<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20960385<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top o’ the morning to you! Yes, it’s St. Patrick’s Day, a day of all things green and Irish.\u00a0 A day when everyone wants to be Irish. Did you know St. Patrick wasn’t? Tis true.\u00a0 He was from Scotland and his parents were Romans.\u00a0 Irish raiders captured him as a teenager and took him to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0qX-1q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.choosingcomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}