{"id":2625,"date":"2022-04-20T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2022-04-20T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:39:50","slug":"good-stewards-of-gods-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;good stewards of God&#8217;s creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo-688x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/garden-3-photo.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Church Community Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just did a newspaper article about a local Mennonite Church Community Garden.  As you can see from the photo, these people take gardening seriously.  The garden coordinator told me this used to just be a big patch of grass south of the church, until 2013.  That&#8217;s when one of the Sunday School classes decided to make the land <em>a lot<\/em> more productive.  They sub-divided it into 16 rather large plots, added a good deal of compost to the soil, and have turned it all into a rather thriving thing.  Mennonites believe we are to be good stewards of God&#8217;s creation.  And what&#8217;s more, they believe they are to help those less fortunate.  So, a lot of this produce every season finds its way to several local food banks and soup kitchens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a newspaper article about a local Mennonite Church Community Garden. As you can see from the photo, these people take gardening seriously. The garden coordinator told me this used to just be a big patch of grass <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2625\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}