{"id":403,"date":"2010-07-07T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2010-07-07T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:30:09","slug":"granna-and-granpa-and-a-baby-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"granna* and granpa and a baby dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last week my parents came up to visit and to be present for baby dude&#8217;s dedication at church.\u00a0 instead of infant baptism, Mennonites do (or at least our congregation does) baby dedication ceremonies where we recognize that children are a gift from God and the congregation agrees to support the growth and faith development\u00a0 of the child and to offer support and wisdom to the parents as well.\u00a0 here are a few of my favorite photos from their time here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"granpa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_PTNu-ATLX5k\/TDFp8UxfvgI\/AAAAAAAABUQ\/n1GrWgwo8Gk\/s720\/_IGP9553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"granna\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_PTNu-ATLX5k\/TDFp-NtAIOI\/AAAAAAAABUY\/TaiyDxOyHQo\/s720\/_IGP9718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"dedication\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_PTNu-ATLX5k\/TDFp67yyKSI\/AAAAAAAABUI\/yoKHifCfbic\/s720\/_IGP9609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>*thanks for the grandparent-name inspiration,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mennodaddy.com\/\"> menno-daddy<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last week my parents came up to visit and to be present for baby dude&#8217;s dedication at church.\u00a0 instead of infant baptism, Mennonites do (or at least our congregation does) baby dedication ceremonies where we recognize that children are a gift from God and the congregation agrees to support the growth and faith development\u00a0 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}