{"id":20402,"date":"2024-09-22T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/?p=20402"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:20:53","slug":"2024-balloon-festival-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our recent Balloon Festival parking fund raiser was a huge success!\u00a0 With the help of 22 volunteers, (THANK YOU so much !), we were able to park 750 cars between Friday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 These efforts brought in about $10,000 in gross receipts, of which about $7,000 was netted for the church (after expenses). This was far in excess of the $3,000 gross receipts budgeted. Big factors in the success were favorable weather and the fact that our neighbors, First United Methodist, had reduced parking capacity due to selling a big chunk of their land.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our recent Balloon Festival parking fund raiser was a huge success!\u00a0 With the help of 22 volunteers, (THANK YOU so much !), we were able to park 750 cars between Friday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 These efforts brought in about $10,000 in gross receipts, of which about $7,000 was netted for the church (after expenses). This … Continue reading 2024 Balloon Festival Blessings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our recent Balloon Festival parking fund raiser was a huge success!\u00a0 With the help of 22 volunteers, (THANK YOU so much !), we were able to park 750 cars between Friday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 These efforts brought in about $10,000 in gross receipts, of which about $7,000 was netted for the church (after expenses). This … Continue reading 2024 Balloon Festival Blessings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Community Unitarian Universalist Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommunityUUChurchPlano\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jen Mason\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@CUUCPlano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CUUCPlano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jen Mason\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jen Mason\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/59c3d20b7387ce1f7d4dce57bf1ec7a9\"},\"headline\":\"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":92,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Other_Images\\\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/\",\"name\":\"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Other_Images\\\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Other_Images\\\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Other_Images\\\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg\",\"width\":798,\"height\":216},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/\",\"name\":\"Community Unitarian Universalist Church\",\"description\":\"Nourishing spirits...Working for justice...Transforming lives\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Community Unitarian Universalist Church\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Home_Page_Images\\\/CUUC-logo-512-512.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Home_Page_Images\\\/CUUC-logo-512-512.jpg\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Community Unitarian Universalist Church\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/CommunityUUChurchPlano\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/CUUCPlano\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.communityuuchurch.org\\\/uua\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/59c3d20b7387ce1f7d4dce57bf1ec7a9\",\"name\":\"Jen Mason\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jen Mason\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church","og_description":"Our recent Balloon Festival parking fund raiser was a huge success!\u00a0 With the help of 22 volunteers, (THANK YOU so much !), we were able to park 750 cars between Friday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 These efforts brought in about $10,000 in gross receipts, of which about $7,000 was netted for the church (after expenses). This … Continue reading 2024 Balloon Festival Blessings","og_url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/","og_site_name":"Community Unitarian Universalist Church","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommunityUUChurchPlano\/","article_published_time":"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jen Mason","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@CUUCPlano","twitter_site":"@CUUCPlano","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jen Mason","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/"},"author":{"name":"Jen Mason","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#\/schema\/person\/59c3d20b7387ce1f7d4dce57bf1ec7a9"},"headline":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings","datePublished":"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/"},"wordCount":92,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/","url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/","name":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings - Community Unitarian Universalist Church","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-22T19:14:24+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-01T19:20:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Other_Images\/2024-Balloon-Festival-Parking-News-Post.jpg","width":798,"height":216},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/2024-balloon-festival-blessings\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2024 Balloon Festival Blessings"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/","name":"Community Unitarian Universalist Church","description":"Nourishing spirits...Working for justice...Transforming lives","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#organization","name":"Community Unitarian Universalist Church","url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Home_Page_Images\/CUUC-logo-512-512.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-content\/uploads\/Home_Page_Images\/CUUC-logo-512-512.jpg","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Community Unitarian Universalist Church"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommunityUUChurchPlano\/","https:\/\/x.com\/CUUCPlano"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/#\/schema\/person\/59c3d20b7387ce1f7d4dce57bf1ec7a9","name":"Jen Mason","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d89de3dfa35e1f8fab6581ca1120fdc1190c906dc219dd8cf6f5e1cff5dd82f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jen Mason"}}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20406,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20402\/revisions\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityuuchurch.org\/uua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}