{"id":499,"date":"2008-11-30T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2008-11-30T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:17:13","slug":"getting-ready-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/getting-ready-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Advent reflections\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/devotionals\/Advent\/index.htm\"><strong>Advent<\/strong><\/a> begins today. We&#8217;ve got 25 days to get ready for Christmas, the birth of Jesus, the incarnate Word of God sent to redeem mankind. Though merchants would have us believe otherwise, the Christmas season actually does not <em>end<\/em>, but<em> begins<\/em>, on Christmas day &#8212; and continues for twelve days until the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent begins today. We&#8217;ve got 25 days to get ready for Christmas, the birth of Jesus, the incarnate Word of God sent to redeem mankind. Though merchants would have us believe otherwise, the Christmas season actually does not end, but begins, on Christmas day &#8212; and continues for twelve days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Getting Ready for Christmas - Politickles","description":"Advent begins today. We've got 25 days to get ready for Christmas, the birth of Jesus, the incarnate Word of God sent to redeem mankind. Though merchants would"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[379,350,380],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-epiphany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}