{"id":407,"date":"2026-08-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:39:26","slug":"eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-1007x1536.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px-560x854.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-DSC_1405-byCherylBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWhen [Jesus] went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, \u2018This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.\u2019 Jesus said to them, \u2018They need not go away; you give them something to eat.\u2019\u201d<\/em><br>&#8211;Matthew 14:14-16 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sometime in the coming week, share food or eat together with someone. Perhaps take a friend to lunch, or invite family over for dinner, or take a donation of boxed and canned food to the local food pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen [Jesus] went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, \u2018This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}