{"id":687,"date":"2011-06-03T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimage.stblogs.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:42:24","slug":"so-many-good-excuses-excused-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Good excuses, excused for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always wanted to make it, but just couldn&#8217;t &#8230; find the time to get away?\u00a0 We hear you!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so different this year that makes it time now to\u00a0register?<\/p>\n<p>Reason #1\u00a0 The Pilgrimage is shorter by a full day: Friday-Sunday, instead of Wednesday-Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Reason #2\u00a0 Better yet, <!--more-->as you just no doubt noticed, now the journey takes place over a &#8216;long weekend&#8217;. That makes it fit even more seamlessly into the life of working families and students.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrimages-past required almost a whole week away from school or work,\u00a0 Tuesday to Friday, and Saturday to boot.<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s schedule makes getting away from work or school simpler: only part of Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>And holy Mass finishes Sunday at 5:00 P.M., leaving time to get to airport or even to drive home, or back to school.<\/p>\n<p>For those needing or wishing to take off Monday, isn&#8217;t that usually the preference &#8211; Friday &amp; Monday- when taking personal days?<\/p>\n<p>In every case, it will mean duties fulfilled &#8211; first to God, then to men &#8211; and all refreshed with grace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pilgrimage for Restoration.<\/em> Come to restore. The rest will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always wanted to make it, but just couldn&#8217;t &#8230; find the time to get away?\u00a0 We hear you! What&#8217;s so different this year that makes it time now to\u00a0register? Reason #1\u00a0 The Pilgrimage is shorter by a full day: Friday-Sunday, instead of Wednesday-Saturday. Reason #2\u00a0 Better yet,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information","category-messages-to-pilgrims","category-messages-to-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimage-for-restoration.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}