{"id":902,"date":"2009-12-11T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T06:45:21","slug":"advent-is-blue-for-a-reasondepression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Advent is blue for a reason=Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some looking into the trends of churches which use blue over purple for Advent.&#160; Several of my pastor friends have thoughts as to why it should blue over purple or purple over blue.&#160; Then I came across this post, <a href=\"http:\/\/depressedpastor.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/01\/advent-is-blue-for-a-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advent is blue for a reason<\/a>.&#160; This <a href=\"http:\/\/depressedpastor.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pastor<\/a> writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> I would argue that Advent is blue and for a reason.&#160; For many pastors, the season of Advent is a very depressing time.&#160; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He later goes on saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, the season of Advent, and the entire month of December, can be draining on a pastor, both physically and emotionally.&#160; I always look forward to a vacation right after Christmas, but that may not happen for every pastor.&#160; During December, a pastor is running at 200% and still has things on his \u201cTo-Do\u201d list.&#160; Through all of this, a pastor has to have a smile on his face and seem as if nothing is bothering him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t posted anything in a little while, but I think that this is a good post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some looking into the trends of churches which use blue over purple for Advent.&#160; Several of my pastor friends have thoughts as to why it should blue over purple or purple over blue.&#160; Then I came across this post, Advent is blue for a reason.&#160; This pastor writes: I would argue that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234192,186537,6443241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-year","category-clergy","category-office-of-holy-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}