{"id":14610,"date":"2023-08-16T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:03:15","slug":"skywatch-friday-sioux-valley-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14610","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Sioux Valley Baptist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oVvcdN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53114011722_806600daf2_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"557\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong><em><code>Sioux Valley Baptist Church, established. 1889<\/code><\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been traveling again, and I apologize for not being as active as I would like to be. I went up to South Dakota for a family reunion. It&#8217;s been four years since my last visit, so I had some catching up to do with a lot of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The church above was built on land donated by my great great grandfather way back when in 1889. It was a church for Danish immigrants who settled in southeast South Dakota. The second Sunday in August is the Reunion Sunday service where the little church is packed with family. Afterwards there is a picnic in town.  This has been going on for decades. It is always nice to see people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been traveling again, and I apologize for not being as active as I would like to be. I went up to South Dakota for a family reunion. It&#8217;s been four years since my last visit, so I had some catching up to do with a lot of people. The church above was built on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2484,2485,1271,1347],"class_list":["post-14610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-family-reunion","tag-sioux-valley-baptist-church","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-south-dakota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}