{"id":137,"date":"2010-08-08T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderbrantley.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-08-08T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:08:45","slug":"baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

My son was baptized today!\u00a0 It was a truly wonderful experience.\u00a0 Once again I have to say how lucky we are to have both sets of grandparents living close enough that they can participate in events like this.\u00a0 We are truly blessed.<\/p>\n

Alex was baptized this morning at Saint Barnabas Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 It is the church that I attended since I was born, my parents still attend there, and both my sister and I were baptized there.\u00a0 The event was made even more special because I was able to use the blanket that was wrapped not only around my sister when she was baptized and me when I was baptized, but was also wrapped around my father when he was baptized.\u00a0 What a wonderful heirloom!<\/p>\n

Alex was pretty well behaved during the church service.\u00a0 Any noises that he did make were noises of joy.\u00a0 He did get a little loud during the sermon, but I only had to step out with him for a moment.\u00a0 Most of the time he was loud during the hymns, but I believe that is just because he likes the music.<\/p>\n

During the actual baptism he was very quiet.\u00a0 He went to Reverend Tom readily and even smiled up at him.\u00a0 The funny part was that when Rev. Tom was walking around with Alex, Alex decided that was the perfect time to practice his teething skills and chew on Tom’s knuckles.\u00a0 After the service Tom told us that, that was the first time a child chewed on his fingers during a baptism.\u00a0 That’s my boy!<\/p>\n

Here is my favorite picture from today, but I have added quite a few more under the pictures tab.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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My son was baptized today!\u00a0 It was a truly wonderful experience.\u00a0 Once again I have to say how lucky we are to have both sets of grandparents living close enough that they can participate in events like this.\u00a0 We are truly blessed. Alex was baptized this morning at Saint Barnabas Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 It is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sgYkyR-baptism","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}