{"id":245,"date":"2013-05-17T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T00:27:17","slug":"field-of-flags","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/?page_id=245","title":{"rendered":"Field of Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_323\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Field of Flags installed at Terryville Congregational Church June 28-July 19, 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/field-of-flags-june-28-2013.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Field of Flags displayed at Terryville Congregational Church, UCC \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 June 28-July 19, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are so proud to have hosted the Field of Flags on our front lawn from June 28-July 19, 2013. \u00a0The Field of Flags was started by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somerscongregational.org\/index.php\/more-info\/field-of-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\">Somers Congregational Church<\/a>\u00a0as a way to honor our military heroes. \u00a0There is one flag per every American casualty in Iraq &amp; Afghanistan. \u00a0The Field was officially retired during a special service at the Somers church in the summer of 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time it was displayed at our church, there were 6,728 flags representing 6,728 lives (casualties in Iraq &amp; Afghanistan as of June 28, 2013).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a special service of dedication during worship on Sunday, June 30 at 10am. \u00a0Thank you to everyone who helped with the Field. \u00a0And thank you to all of our military men and women who serve our country, their families and their communities!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to hosting the Field of Flags, our church collects weekly donations to help local military men &amp; women. We mail care packages to those who are serving, and we partner with the community in any way we can to support all our service men and women and veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so proud to have hosted the Field of Flags on our front lawn from June 28-July 19, 2013. \u00a0The Field of Flags was started by the Somers Congregational Church\u00a0as a way to honor our military heroes. \u00a0There is one flag per every American casualty in Iraq &amp; Afghanistan. \u00a0The Field was officially retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":190,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryvillecongregationalchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}