{"id":3669,"date":"2013-02-12T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/02\/12\/3669"},"modified":"2013-02-12T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T02:49:38","slug":"3669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/02\/12\/3669","title":{"rendered":"\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"post_content\"><p>Interesting tidbit: \u201cIn my consulting experiences in the past, I found that estimated attendance was inflated by a factor of over 30 percent.\u201d Also, counting people on a mission trip seems odd to me (a suggestion that comes near the&nbsp;end).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomrainer.com\/2013\/02\/09\/how-churches-count-attendance\/\">How Churches Count Attendance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many church leaders and members cringe when they hear or read about numbers and statistics in churches. Such a reaction is understandable. For many years in many churches, numbers were an obsession.\u2026..&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting tidbit: \u201cIn my consulting experiences in the past, I found that estimated attendance was inflated by a factor of over 30 percent.\u201d Also, counting people on a mission trip seems odd to me (a suggestion that comes near the&nbsp;end). How Churches Count Attendance Many church leaders and members cringe when they hear or read \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2013\/02\/12\/3669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201c\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-asides","tag-google","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Ded-3669","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}