{"id":424,"date":"2026-09-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=424"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:26:40","slug":"labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px-994x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px-994x1024.jpg 994w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px-768x791.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px-560x577.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/09\/26-09-07-DSC_0885-byCherylBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cYou shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; <\/em><br><em>you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8212; Psalm 128:2<\/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\">We celebrate labor today, on a holiday described by the US Department of Labor as \u201can annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.\u201d The Psalm celebrates labor as producing fruit to eat, happiness, and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Each of us labor in many different ways. What part of your labor do you celebrate as producing fruit, happiness, or wellbeing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.\u201d&#8212; Psalm 128:2 Activity We celebrate labor today, on a holiday described by the US Department of Labor as \u201can annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.\u201d The Psalm celebrates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat","tag-tiny-retreats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}