{"id":4814,"date":"2025-06-21T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2025-06-21T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:35:04","slug":"a-little-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"A little different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"68\">One Sunday morning, the minister decided to shake things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"188\">He told the congregation, \u201cToday, I\u2019m going to say a word\u2014and I want you to sing the first hymn that comes to mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"440\">He shouted, \u201cCROSS!\u201d Instantly, the church broke into <em data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"267\">The Old Rugged Cross.<\/em><br data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"270\" \/>Then he said, \u201cGRACE!\u201d Without missing a beat, they sang <em data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"343\">Amazing Grace.<\/em><br data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"346\" \/>Next, he called out, \u201cPOWER!\u201d The congregation responded with <em data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"438\">There Is Power in the Blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"442\" data-end=\"490\">Then came the twist. The minister said, \u201cS*X.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"502\">Silence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"579\">The whole room froze. Eyes darted, heads turned. No one dared say a word.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"682\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Until, from the very back, a tiny 87-year-old grandma slowly stood up\u2026 and began to sing, <em data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"682\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Memories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; One Sunday morning, the minister decided to shake things up a bit. He told the congregation, \u201cToday, I\u2019m going to say a word\u2014and I want you to sing the first hymn that comes to mind.\u201d He shouted, \u201cCROSS!\u201d Instantly, the church broke into The Old Rugged Cross.Then he said, \u201cGRACE!\u201d Without missing a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}