{"id":4887,"date":"2009-12-15T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2012-04-17T07:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:04:48","slug":"the-message-of-the-manger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-message-of-the-manger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Message of the Manger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dno1967\/4176328413\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4176328413_1baaa08f6a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Light looked down and saw the darkness.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;I will go there!&#8221; said light. <\/p>\n<p>Peace looked down and saw war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will go there!&#8221; said Peace. <\/p>\n<p>Love looked down and saw hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will go there!&#8221; said Love.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSo, he,<\/p>\n<p>The Lord of Light,<\/p>\n<p>the Prince of Peace<\/p>\n<p>the King of Love<\/p>\n<p>came down<\/p>\n<p>and crept in<\/p>\n<p>beside us. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Word became flesh and blood,<br \/>\nand moved into the neighborhood.<br \/>\nWe saw the glory with our own eyes,<br \/>\nthe one-of-a-kind glory,<br \/>\nlike Father, like Son,<br \/>\nGenerous inside and out,<br \/>\ntrue from start to finish.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nHT to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartcutler.com\">Stewart Cutler<\/a> for this (listen for an extended retelling on <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\">this week&#8217;s podcast<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light looked down and saw the darkness.<\/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":[19],"tags":[1572,484,286,2810,2811,2809,1542],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-jesus","tag-king-of-love","tag-lord-of-light","tag-manger","tag-prince-of-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1gP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","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=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}