{"id":3123,"date":"2016-03-20T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2016-03-21T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T18:25:50","slug":"pictures-from-the-procession-of-the-palms-in-houghton-le-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Pictures from the Procession of the Palms in Houghton-le-Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were blessed with beautiful weather this morning as we gathered in Rectory Park for our Procession of the Palms remembering Christ&#8217;s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey as the crowds waved their palms.<\/p>\n<p>We were joined by Houghton Youth Brass Band and two donkeys, the little one, a Spanish miniature called Bethany and the bigger one an Irish breed called Summer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3134 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8949-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"CC4A8949 (1)\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8949-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8949-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8949-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8949-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 940\/627;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos from John Lambton of this very special day:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3123 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?attachment_id=3124'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8906-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8906-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8906-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8906-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CC4A8906-450x300.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 940px; 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We were joined by Houghton &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?p=3123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[273,270,24,272,140,141,271],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-band","tag-donkey","tag-houghton-le-spring","tag-houghton-youth-brass","tag-palm-sunday","tag-palms","tag-procession"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}