{"id":1454,"date":"2006-12-17T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2006-12-17T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T04:40:00","slug":"christmas-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Christmas meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jeremiah, 10:1-4<\/p>\n<p>1 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. <\/p>\n<p>2 This is what the LORD says:<br \/>\n       &#8220;Do not learn the ways of the nations<br \/>\n       or be terrified by signs in the sky,<br \/>\n       though the nations are terrified by them.<\/p>\n<p>3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless;<br \/>\n       they cut a tree out of the forest,<br \/>\n       and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.<\/p>\n<p> 4 They adorn it with silver and gold;<br \/>\n       they fasten it with hammer and nails<br \/>\n       so it will not totter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, we have a tree.  Getting the silver and gold out of the basement now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah, 10:1-4<\/p>\n<p>1 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. <\/p>\n<p>2 This is what the LORD says: &#8220;Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them.<\/p>\n<p>3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1454\">Christmas meditation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}