{"id":30704,"date":"2025-10-16T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=30704"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:27:57","slug":"the-spiritual-life-of-animals-animal-blessing-service","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-spiritual-life-of-animals-animal-blessing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Life of Animals: Animal Blessing Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"x_gmail_default\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Today we bless our animal companions and the wild creatures with whom we share this earth. In-person participants are invited to bring animals who would enjoy getting out and who are fully vaccinated, and please make sure they are restrained safely and compassionately. You can also choose to bring a photo of pets who would rather stay home. Zoom folks, your pets are warmly invited to join in and receive a special blessing too. Also, we&#8217;ll celebrate with the humans among us who are joining the congregation as new members!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Minister:\u00a0 Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig<br \/>\nWorship Associate:\u00a0 Carole Griffin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click the video below to view this service:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Spiritual Life of Animals: Animal Blessing Service,&quot; led by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NLIv_Gk4jhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we bless our animal companions and the wild creatures with whom we share this earth. In-person participants are invited to bring animals who would enjoy getting out and who are fully vaccinated, and please make sure they are restrained safely and compassionately. You can also choose to bring a photo of pets who would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-spiritual-life-of-animals-animal-blessing-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Spiritual Life of Animals: Animal Blessing Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-30704","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30742,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30704\/revisions\/30742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=30704"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=30704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}