{"id":2895,"date":"2009-07-20T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2009-07-20T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:13:11","slug":"communion-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Communion on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, \u2018I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.  Apart from me you can do nothing.\u2019  I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute [they] had requested that I not do this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When Buzz Aldrin and his teammates landed on the moon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericmetaxas.com\/blog\/communion-on-the-moon-july-20th-1969\/\">Buzz took the communion of the Lord Jesus<\/a>.  Eric Metaxas writes about it on his blog today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, \u2018I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Communion on the Moon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}