{"id":29539,"date":"2016-03-25T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=29539"},"modified":"2016-03-29T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:12:46","slug":"easter-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/25\/easter-flowers\/29539\/","title":{"rendered":" Easter Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Western Christians celebrate Easter (March 27), correspondent Kim Lawton looks at the role flowers play in Easter worship services as a symbol of new life. She talks with Linda Roeckelein, head of the Flower Guild at Washington National Cathedral, about decorating that massive building, and also with Rev. Fleming Rutledge, author of the new book <em>The Crucifixion<\/em>, who says Easter becomes \u201ca very thin, generic festival\u201d without \u201clooking into the grave and then saying we rejoice with the risen Christ.&#8221; Only then can flowers \u201cgive us the gladness that comes with the unrepeatable quality of the resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter becomes \u201ca very thin, generic festival,\u201d says author Rev. Fleming Rutledge, without \u201clooking into the grave and then saying we rejoice with the risen Christ.\u201d Only then, she says, can flowers \u201cgive us the gladness that comes with the unrepeatable quality of the resurrection.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/25\/easter-flowers\/29539\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":29580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-faith-and-spirituality","faith-catholic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>March 25, 2016 ~ Easter Flowers | March 25, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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