{"id":3775,"date":"2009-02-27T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2009-02-27T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:21:28","slug":"gives-new-meaning-to-tmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/02\/27\/gives-new-meaning-to-tmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gives new meaning to &#8220;TMI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/n628531417_2579474_8799jpg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3777\" title=\"n628531417_2579474_8799jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/n628531417_2579474_8799jpg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"n628531417_2579474_8799jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/n628531417_2579474_8799jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/n628531417_2579474_8799jpg.jpeg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>First, thanks to a random Facebooker for the pic!<\/p>\n<p>At the NCCYM Youth Ministry Extravaganza last December, all the performers were told to wear ugly Christmas Sweaters for the opening number. \u00a0Shannon&#8217;s was a homemade number, with a picture of his cat wearing a Santa hat, and the back prclaiming &#8220;Mew-y Christmas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Orin however went for a store-bought number, from (where else) Cracker Barrel. \u00a0It&#8217;s a beautiful size 3x women&#8217;s sweater,\u00a0sleeveless, with a faux-fur collar and dancing elves. \u00a0He&#8217;s also wearing something Christmassy on his head, but is a little fuzzy about just what that was. \u00a0Shortly before going on, it was suggested, in the spirit of strange humor and entertaining a room full of youth ministers, that Orin go without the long sleeved shirt underneath he had planned to wear.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the big dance number, to fill a little time, we all returned to the stage, one by one, for a sweater judging. \u00a0Here, Gene (almost not pictured) is appeasing the animal rights folks in the crowd by making sure they knew the collar was made of fake fur.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later he raised Orin&#8217;s arm to show them what real fur looks like. \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0Try to get that image out of your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">First, thanks to a random Facebooker for the pic! At the NCCYM Youth Ministry Extravaganza last December, all the performers were told to wear ugly Christmas Sweaters for the opening number. \u00a0Shannon&#8217;s was a homemade number, with a picture of his cat wearing a Santa hat, and the back prclaiming &#8220;Mew-y Christmas!&#8221; Orin however went&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2009\/02\/27\/gives-new-meaning-to-tmi\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,19,44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-friends","category-nccym","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}