{"id":4172,"date":"2008-11-29T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2008-11-29T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T04:53:08","slug":"chains-shall-he-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/chains-shall-he-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Chains shall He break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I serve the king of an upside down kingdom. A kingdom where the meek shall inherit the earth, where those who morn are comforted, where the last are first, where the oppressed shall be freed. Where rather than appearing in a palace to lead his kingdom with a sword, my king came and appeared in a lowly manager &#8212; surrounded by animals.<\/p>\n<p>May we conspire to be an active part of this kingdom this advent season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Truly He taught us to love one another,<br \/>\nHis law is love and His gospel is peace.<br \/>\nChains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.<br \/>\nAnd in his name all oppression shall cease.<br \/>\nSweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,<br \/>\nWith all our hearts we praise His holy name.<br \/>\nChrist is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,<br \/>\nHis power and glory ever more proclaim!<br \/>\nHis power and glory ever more proclaim!<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L-MXhY7vVqI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-MXhY7vVqI\">embedded video<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I serve the king of an upside down kingdom. A kingdom where the meek shall inherit the earth, where those who morn are comforted, where the last are first, where the oppressed shall be freed. Where rather than appearing in a palace to lead his kingdom with a sword, my king came and appeared in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/chains-shall-he-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chains shall He break<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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":[18,19,17],"tags":[1572,1648,484,1661,729,521,146,1662],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","category-take-action","tag-advent","tag-advent-conspiracy","tag-christmas","tag-holy-night","tag-human-rights","tag-human-slavery","tag-slavery","tag-universal-humans-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-15i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}