{"id":122,"date":"2005-12-26T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/26\/merry-christmas"},"modified":"2005-12-26T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T00:29:00","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/merry-christmas.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May the peace of the Christ Child be upon you and yours this Chrismas season!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Risk of Birth, Christmas 1973<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is no time for a child to be born,<br \/>With the earth betrayed by war &amp; hate<br \/>And a comet slashing the sky to warn<br \/>That time runs out &amp; the sun burns late.<\/p>\n<p>That was no time for a child to be born,<br \/>In a land in the crushing grip of Rome;<br \/>Honour &amp; truth were trampled by scorn &#8212;<br \/>Yet here did the Saviour make his home.<\/p>\n<p>When is the time for love to be born?<br \/>The inn is full on the planet earth,<br \/>And by a comet the sky is torn &#8212;<br \/>Yet Love still takes the risk of birth.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0877889317\/zachfrey\/\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Weather of the Heart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the peace of the Christ Child be upon you and yours this Chrismas season! The Risk of Birth, Christmas 1973 This is no time for a child to be born,With the earth betrayed by war &amp; hateAnd a comet slashing the sky to warnThat time runs out &amp; the sun burns late. That was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}