{"id":361,"date":"2006-10-12T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=361"},"modified":"2006-10-12T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T21:36:01","slug":"clergy-appreciation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/clergy-appreciation-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Clergy Appreciation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">The month of October is Clergy Appreciation Month and dates back to 1992. <a href=\"http:\/\/pressroom.hallmark.com\/clergy_appreciation_day.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hallmark<\/a> has a page giving details of this celebration.  Here is some background from their site:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"3\">The mission of Clergy Appreciation Month is to uplift and encourage pastors, missionaries and religious workers by providing physical, emotional and spiritual support. There are more than 1 million full-time Christian ministry workers in the United States, including 350,000 senior pastors.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"3\">So make sure to thank your pastor, reverand, preacher and priest for all they do.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of October is Clergy Appreciation Month and dates back to 1992. Hallmark has a page giving details of this celebration. Here is some background from their site: The mission of Clergy Appreciation Month is to uplift and encourage pastors, missionaries and religious workers by providing physical, emotional and spiritual support. There are more than 1 million full-time Christian ministry workers in the United States, including 350,000 senior pastors. So make sure to thank your pastor, reverand, preacher and priest for all they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/working-the-santa-shift\/","url_meta":{"origin":361,"position":0},"title":"Working the &#8220;Santa Shift&#8221;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If you think your job is tough, check out this article from CareerJournal.com - Santa-Shift Workers Wrestle Perfectionists. 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