{"id":2064,"date":"2020-05-21T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:32:49","slug":"blog-may-21st-ascension-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Blog May 21st &#8211; Ascension Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-624x308.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Risen! The Musical - Episode Three - Galilee to The Ascension\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P_urqN0cwPw?start=230&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today is Ascension Day -celebrated by the Christian Church as the day in which the Resurrected Jesus ascended to heaven watched by His disciples.<\/p>\n<p>It is portrayed in today\u2019s featured video &#8211; Episode 3 of Risen! The Musical &#8211; \u201cGalilee to The Ascension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My sincere thanks to my old friend Ross Gill for dividing the whole of Risen! The Musical into three \u201cbite sized\u201d episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Today is also the anniversary of the fifth anniversary of the first professional production of Risen! The Musical &#8211; May 21st 2015. It was performed at the Coventry Pentecost Festival<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll never get to a person&#8217;s soul until you understand their hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Ravi Zacharias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Ascension Day -celebrated by the Christian Church as the day in which the Resurrected Jesus ascended to heaven watched by His disciples. It is portrayed in today\u2019s featured video &#8211; Episode 3 of Risen! The Musical &#8211; \u201cGalilee to The Ascension.\u201d My sincere thanks to my old friend Ross Gill for dividing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}