{"id":9449,"date":"2012-02-15T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2012-02-15T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:39:11","slug":"video-making-pierogi-at-saint-john-kanty-church-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2012\/02\/video-making-pierogi-at-saint-john-kanty-church-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Making Pierogi at Saint John Kanty Church Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2i5NiXqG1X8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each year the parishioners of Saint John Kanty Church get together before lent and make pierogi to sell to the community and parish as a fundraiser for the church\u2026last year they made 5000. \u00a0That\u2019s a lot of pierogi.<\/p>\n<p>I caught a little bit of the process yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Being a Kanty\u2019s kid, it is always great going back to the church and yesterday was special. \u00a0Any time in you get in a kitchen with Polish ladies, you can\u2019t help to feel like they are welcoming you like you are part of their big extended family.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that kept coming back to me while I was at Kanty\u2019s yesterday and later reflecting on the experience when piecing together the video was that these people and many like them are at the core of what keeps churches like Saint John Kanty alive. \u00a0You will never see their names in the paper or their faces on TV news bragging about what they do. \u00a0 They go about their business working together to preserve this place they believe in. \u00a0It is when I meet people like I did at Kanty\u2019s yesterday that is motivating and inspiring to me.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want some of their pierogi? \u00a0You can find out how to purchase <a href=\"http:\/\/stjohnkantychurchbuffalo.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/23\/lenten-pierogi-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">by visiting Saint John Kanty\u2019s website<\/a>\u2014><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the parishioners of Saint John Kanty Church get together before lent and make pierogi to sell to the community and parish as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,1,7,5,8,623],"tags":[1136,74,209,25],"class_list":["post-9449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alive-multimedia","category-news","category-alive-churches","category-bf-people","category-b-f-places","category-b-f-preservation","tag-buffalo","tag-pierogi","tag-saint-john-kanty-buffalo","tag-saint-john-kanty-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-2sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}