{"id":28736,"date":"2020-12-25T00:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28736"},"modified":"2020-12-23T20:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T01:48:40","slug":"merry-christmas-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/merry-christmas-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jesus was born\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bg-skhZb4e4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus was born\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 David Jenkins<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jesus was born in a stable so poor: there was no room at the inn.<br \/>\nWise men and shepherds travelled to bring<br \/>\nGifts to the heavenly King.<br \/>\n<em>Chorus<br \/>\n<\/em>Jesus was born in our hearts when we swore<br \/>\nlove and devotion to him.<br \/>\nwe\u2019re making the room for him to bloom;<br \/>\nShowing his rivals the door.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was living a life full of giving: healing the broken and poor.<br \/>\nUntil your sin and mine killed the Divine<br \/>\nOn Calvary\u2019s hill so forlorn.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was rising, a thing so surprising that no-one believed it at all.<br \/>\nBack from the dead, he appeared to his friends,<br \/>\nFunctioning body and all.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is with us, not just at Christmas:<br \/>\nFilling the world with his love.<br \/>\nCalling our name, taking our shame,<br \/>\nSaving all those who will come.<br \/>\n\u00a9 2010 David Jenkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus was born\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 David Jenkins Jesus was born in a stable so poor: there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/merry-christmas-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2206],"class_list":["post-28736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}