{"id":1363,"date":"2005-08-05T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2014-10-02T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:52:34","slug":"whatever-happened-to-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whatever happened to Sunday?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1363\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1363\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>Sometimes we should look past Adventism&#8217;s devotion to the Sabbath and see in it their devotion to God.<\/p>\n<p>From LifeSiteNews:\u00a0<a title=\"Phoenix Bishop says &quot;No Sunday Shopping&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/phoenix-bishop-says-no-sunday-shopping-a-wedge-issue-in-the-culture-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Bishop says &#8220;No Sunday Shopping&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006600;\"><em>Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix said, &#8220;Keep the Lord&#8217;s day holy. . . refrain from all shopping and enjoy Sunday as a day of rest, a day of leisure, a day for family, a day for celebrating the Eucharist.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006600;\"><em>The trend to the loss of the observance of Sunday is another feature of the general de-Christianizing of western culture since the end of the second world war.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From The Arizona Republic:\u00a0Sundays no longer day of rest<em> [dead link removed]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006600;\"><em>&#8220;You almost have to be opened on Sundays,&#8221; Clark, 41, said. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much competition, you have to be.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #006600;\"><em>&#8220;Nobody relaxes on Sunday anymore.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we should look past Adventism&#8217;s devotion to the Sabbath and see in it their devotion to God.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1363\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"Whatever happened to Sunday?\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[81,244,745,41],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventism","tag-adventist","tag-bishop-olmsted","tag-sabbath","tag-sunday","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-lZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}