{"id":91691,"date":"2022-01-15T03:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T08:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=91691"},"modified":"2022-01-15T03:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T08:04:42","slug":"christmas-eve-at-the-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/christmas-eve-at-the-grotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve At The Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Christmas Eve (2021), I had the unusual experience of visiting the Grotto Of The Redemption at West Bend, Iowa.  That is not something I would ordinarily work into my holiday festivities but then again the weather was unusually mild, and we had out-of-town visitors who wanted to do that.<br><br>As those unfamiliar with the place will be able to tell, The Grotto, as we call it locally, is a religious shrine.  We were there on Christmas Eve.  Almost nobody else was.  That struck me as odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, a friend, Damon Hintz, has just recklessly shared a working copy of his first musical composition in 12 years, and I have dutifully stolen it, since I have been pre-absolved, and it seems to fit nicely with my little slide show I made to commemorate the visit.  Damon has not named the piece yet, and he might not even be finished with it yet, but it&#8217;s good enough for me.  I might suggest &#8220;I Absolve You&#8221; as nice title, but I&#8217;ll bet that wasn&#8217;t what he had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Grotto-Of-The-Redemption.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br>\n<!-- WordPress Posts --><br>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"6038161031\"><\/ins><br>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br>\n<!-- Large Rectangle --><br>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"1055474237\"><\/ins><br>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Christmas Eve (2021), I had the unusual experience of visiting the Grotto Of The Redemption at West Bend, Iowa. That is not something I would ordinarily work into my holiday festivities but then again the weather was unusually mild, and we had out-of-town visitors who wanted to do that. As those unfamiliar with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/christmas-eve-at-the-grotto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Eve At The Grotto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12205,154,10997],"class_list":["post-91691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-grotto-of-the-redemption","tag-iowa","tag-west-bend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91693,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91691\/revisions\/91693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}