{"id":33723,"date":"2022-09-10T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-did-you-give-up-for-lent\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:00:09","slug":"what-did-you-give-up-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-did-you-give-up-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did You Give Up for Lent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a common practice for people to choose to sacrifice something during the Lenten season. Stephen Smith of OpenBible.info watches the hundreds of thousands of Lent-related tweets during the week of Ash Wednesday and records the most common items given up by people.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, the No. 1 item is chocolate, but here are some of the more interesting items to sacrifice, listed along with their sequence in the list:<br \/> 4. School<br \/> 11. Lent<br \/> 17. You<br \/> 25. Giving up things<br \/> 27. Netflix<br \/> 44. McDonald\u2019s<br \/> 54. Winter<br \/> 61. Procrastination<br \/> 73. Selfies<br \/> 79. Breathing<br \/> 87. Chik-fil-A<br \/> 92. Sweet tea<br \/> 94. Sarcasm<br \/> 100. Hot Cheetos<\/p>\n<p>Who knew Hot Cheetos were so popular? However, 46 people apparently tweeted they are giving them up during Lent.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/what-did-you-give-up-for-lent\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a common practice for people to choose to sacrifice something during the Lenten season. Stephen Smith of OpenBible.info watches the hundreds of thousands of Lent-related tweets during the week of Ash Wednesday and records the most common items given up by people. As you can imagine, the No. 1 item is chocolate, but here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-did-you-give-up-for-lent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Did You Give Up for Lent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}