{"id":6901,"date":"2010-11-26T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2011-04-05T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:13:29","slug":"let-the-advent-season-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/let-the-advent-season-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Advent Season begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/381127576\/jonathan-and-laurie-christmas-2006.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Jonathan and Laurie Christmas 2006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/154\/381127576_b40e3fbdca.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan and Laurie Christmas 2006\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan and Laurie Christmas 2006 (our first Christmas together)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forget the huge sales, the Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day trends&#8230; this is what kicks the Advent season off for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Trombone Shorty and other musicians from New Orleans perform O&#8217; Holy Night on Studio 60:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJ0RI_Iv4WM\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprigliano.org\/2007\/12\/oh-holy-night-from-studio-60.html\">download a copy here<\/a>)<\/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!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tromboneshorty.com\/\">Trombone Shorty<\/a> on his website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the official start of the Advent Season for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the huge sales, the Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day trends&#8230; this is what kicks the Advent season off for me&#8230; Trombone Shorty and other musicians from New Orleans perform O&#8217; Holy Night on Studio 60: (download a copy here) Truly He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/let-the-advent-season-begin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the Advent Season begin<\/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":[19],"tags":[1572,484,2942,1737,3922],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-new-orleans","tag-studio-60","tag-trombone-shorty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1Nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}