{"id":724,"date":"2008-12-17T19:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2008-12-17T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:34:00","slug":"give-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/give-receive\/","title":{"rendered":"Give &#038; Receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[T]he tradition of gift-giving is rooted in the gift that God offers to the world in his Son who comes in the appearance of a frail babe. Likewise, the Magi, the Wise Men, who came from the East, brought the Christ-child exotic gifts to celebrate his Advent. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/commentary\/494_why_we_give.php\"><strong>Robert Sirico, Acton Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a gift-giver, you know how good it feels. If you&#8217;re not, pretend that you are, start giving, and eventually you will be. You are what you do. Why not be generous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[T]he tradition of gift-giving is rooted in the gift that God offers to the world in his Son who comes in the appearance of a frail babe. Likewise, the Magi, the Wise Men, who came from the East, brought the Christ-child exotic gifts to celebrate his Advent. &#8212; Robert Sirico, &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":"Give & Receive - Politickles","description":"[T]he tradition of gift-giving is rooted in the gift that God offers to the world in his Son who comes in the appearance of a frail babe. Likewise, the Magi, th"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,537,538,536],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charity","tag-christmas-gifts","tag-generosity","tag-gift-giving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}