{"id":555,"date":"2011-04-23T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-04-23T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:59:15","slug":"first-second-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/first-second-third.html","title":{"rendered":"First, Second, Third&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by churches with the names like &#8216;First United Methodist Church&#8221;, &#8220;Second United Methodist Church&#8221;, and so on. What makes the first different from the second? What about the &#8220;Last United Methodist Church&#8221;? Are they the end all be all of United Methodist Churches?<\/p>\n<p>So in the spirit of <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/715\/\">xkcd <\/a>I turned to Google to compare the number of search results returned for each church name. And so I present to you my completely unscientific results.<\/p>\n<p>The Baptists have the largest web presence followed up by the United Methodist Church. Overall the Anglican&#8217;s and the United Church are the least represented.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s to you the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbcboston.org\/\">Twelfth Baptist Church<\/a>&#8221; in Boston, because after all, the first eleven just couldn&#8217;t get it right \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"First, Second, Third...Churches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/churchnumbers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by churches with the names like &#8216;First United Methodist Church&#8221;, &#8220;Second United Methodist Church&#8221;, and so on. What makes the first different from the second? What about the &#8220;Last United Methodist Church&#8221;? Are they the end &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/first-second-third.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}