{"id":44,"date":"2010-01-30T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-01-30T18:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:54:58","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/welcome-to-our-new-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Our New Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to all!\u00a0 This blog is the newest development at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.renewaloffaith.org<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\" target=\"_blank\">Renewal of Faith<\/a> has been in existence for some time as a collection of class papers and reflections that I have written.\u00a0 I have been blogging since September 2008 but until now the blogging was done on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmaryssouthside.org\" target=\"_blank\">St. Mary&#8217;s parish website <\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stmaryssouthside.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.stmaryssouthside.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Recently, I decided to move my blog to my website as I prepare to change parishes in June (2010).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The look of this blog is different from the parish blog.\u00a0 First, the picture at the top is taken from the banner on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.renewaloffaith.org<\/a>.\u00a0 The picture is of Niagara Falls.\u00a0 I chose this image as a reminder of the cleansing waters of our baptism.\u00a0 Another difference from the parish blog is the links found on the right side.\u00a0 The links are to various Catholic institutions to help you learn and explore the Catholic faith and how we are called\u00a0to live our faith today.<\/p>\n<p>The left side is similar in content to the parish blog containing links to posts and comments posted on this blog.\u00a0 One final thing is the bottom edge of the banner picture.\u00a0 There are five buttons.\u00a0 The first is a &#8220;Home&#8221; button to take you back to the main page of this blog.\u00a0 The next is a button with information about my purpose in blogging.\u00a0 Then is &#8220;Ask a Question&#8221; where instead of just responding to my posts you can submit a question on a topic of your choice.\u00a0 Next is &#8220;Guidelines for Commenting.&#8221;\u00a0 These are some guidelines that I hope to never have to enforce.\u00a0 Please note I will post your comments even if you disagree with me if you comment is written in the spirit of true dialogue and to grow in understanding of each other.\u00a0 Lastly is a button labelled &#8220;Feed.&#8221; While I don&#8217;t understand how this works you can use this to subscribe to this blog and follow the comments without going to the blog just to see if there are new comments.<\/p>\n<p>If you see only a shortened form of an article, click on the title of the article and it will change to show the whole article.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any problems viewing my blog.\u00a0 For now, enjoy and be sure to check back for new posts.<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to all!\u00a0 This blog is the newest development at www.renewaloffaith.org.\u00a0 Renewal of Faith has been in existence for some time as a collection of class papers and reflections that I have written.\u00a0 I have been blogging since September 2008 but until now the blogging was done on St. Mary&#8217;s parish website at http:\/\/blog.stmaryssouthside.org.\u00a0 Recently, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/welcome-to-our-new-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Welcome to Our New Blog&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}