{"id":22678,"date":"2025-06-19T03:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22678"},"modified":"2025-06-19T04:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:02:15","slug":"22678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22678","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When communion ended, the organist began to play the closing hymn.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when the side door creaked open.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor \u2014 running late from a visit to the hospital \u2014 stepped into the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>He scanned the pews.<\/p>\n<p>Then his eyes landed on the old woman in the back.<\/p>\n<p>And right there, in front of the entire congregation, he stopped mid-step, took off his glasses, and said:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22680\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When communion ended, the organist began to play the closing hymn. That\u2019s when the side door creaked open. The pastor \u2014 running late from a visit to the hospital \u2014 stepped into the sanctuary. He scanned the pews. Then his eyes landed on the old woman in the back. And right there, in front of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22678\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22685,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions\/22685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}