{"id":610,"date":"2011-12-20T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=610"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:01:17","slug":"christmas-and-the-shortest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Christmas and the shortest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"nativity\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nativity.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is nearly here, 4 days to go! Still time for the last of the shopping to be done, still time for the last of the presents to be wrapped and put under the tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On my way to church today I passed a Dad and his son sawing off the bottom of the Christmas tree, making sure it fits inside the house.<\/p>\n<p>And now we have arrived at the shortest day of the year, the darkness is nearly complete. Makes me feel like hibernating!<\/p>\n<p>If you are outside in the evenings take a look at the stars.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earth NIght Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/all-solar-system-planets-bedeck-december-2011-night-sky\">Venus <\/a> is brilliant in the west. The dark night sky is just perfect to think about the brilliance of the star that rested over Bethlehem to show where Jesus was born.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All out of darkness there came light, which made the angels sing that night.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Revd Sue Martin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Gayton group of parishes\" href=\"http:\/\/gaytongroupofparishes.org\/\">Curate at Gayton group of parishes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Christmas is nearly here, 4 days to go! Still time for the last of the shopping to be done, still time for the last of the presents to be wrapped and put under the tree. &nbsp; &nbsp; On my way to church today I passed a Dad and his son sawing off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[34,53,36,54],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-theological","tag-christmas","tag-gayton-group-of-parishes","tag-nativity","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}