{"id":449,"date":"2026-11-02T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=449"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:21:53","slug":"taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/11\/26-11-02-DSC_0082-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><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>\u201cO <strong>taste<\/strong> and see that the Lord is good;<br>happy are those who take refuge in him.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8211; Psalm 34:8 (NRSVue)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pumpkins seem to be everywhere this fall season\u2014a symbol of the harvest and a sign of the bounty that God provides. Taste God\u2019s goodness by tasting some pumpkin (or another fruit of the fall harvest season, if you don\u2019t like pumpkin). Some ideas: bake some pumpkin muffins, buy a pumpkin pie at the store, order a pumpkin spice drink at your favorite caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cO taste and see that the Lord is good;happy are those who take refuge in him.\u201d&#8211; Psalm 34:8 (NRSVue) Activity Pumpkins seem to be everywhere this fall season\u2014a symbol of the harvest and a sign of the bounty that God provides. Taste God\u2019s goodness by tasting some pumpkin (or another fruit of the fall harvest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}