{"id":13464,"date":"2018-09-26T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2018-09-26T03:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T07:37:39","slug":"brick-church-to-host-blessing-of-the-animals-pet-fair-and-adoption-event-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/09\/brick-church-to-host-blessing-of-the-animals-pet-fair-and-adoption-event-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Church to Host &#8216;Blessing of the Animals,&#8217; Pet Fair and Adoption Event in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13465\" style=\"width: 723px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Sonny and Luna, two rescue dogs in Ocean County. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"713\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM.png 713w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM-400x311.png 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM-540x420.png 540w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM-640x498.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM-681x530.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonny and Luna, two rescue dogs in Ocean County. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A church in Brick will welcome some of God\u2019s four-legged creatures for a blessing ceremony in October \u2013 plus the chance to score some treats and other goodies.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul\u2019s United Methodist Church, on Herbertsville Road, will <a href=\"http:\/\/stpaulsbrick.com\/blessing-of-the-animals\/\">host<\/a> a Blessing of the Animals ceremony Oct. 20, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will include a ceremony to bless all of the pets that are present, plus a Pet Memorial Montage, K9 demonstrations, face painters, pet\/owner activities,<br \/>\nvendors with shopping opportunities for pets and humans, plus a food court. There will also be the opportunity to adopt a pet.<\/p>\n<p>The church is seeking volunteers to help with the event, as well as vendors. 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St. Paul\u2019s United Methodist Church, on Herbertsville Road, will host a Blessing of the Animals ceremony Oct. 20, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3471,3470],"class_list":["post-13464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-blessing-of-the-animals","tag-st-pauls-united-methodist-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-26-at-3.35.39-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-3va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}