{"id":348,"date":"2010-04-27T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2010-04-27T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:15:19","slug":"you-have-grown-taller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/27\/you-have-grown-taller\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;You have grown taller!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Mrs. Paulowitz, we both may have shrunk, but you have shrunk more than I have!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This evening Rolf Marx and I conducted the 2nd passover service <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:10px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/2010-04-27.jpg\" title=\"2nd passover\" alt=\"2nd passover\" height=\"243\" width=\"275\" \/> for Mrs. Gertrud Paulowitz, a member of our Dormagen congregation (near Cologne). Mrs. Paulowitz was not able to keep the passover on the regular date last month, so she observed this memorial a month later in accordance with biblical instructions. Since she is not able to attend services regularly, I only see her about every three months or so. This evening she greeted me by telling me how much I have grown over the years. I have known Mrs. Paulowitz for some 36 years, ever since she began attending church services in D&uuml;sseldorf. Actually the one whose height has changed is Mrs. Paulowitz herself, and I jokingly told her that she had shrunk instead of me having grown. We had a nice meal before the service, and then Rolf and I went through the scriptures with her so she could partake of the bread and wine. Mrs. Paulowitz is now 89 years old and has quite an <a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=149\" target=\"_blank\">interesting background<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Mrs. Paulowitz, we both may have shrunk, but you have shrunk more than I have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ucg-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}