{"id":6533,"date":"2020-12-25T06:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2020-12-25T06:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T11:34:23","slug":"merry-christmas-christ-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6533","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas! Christ is born!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"495\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSNEiiH-gzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Gospel LK 2:1-14<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus<br \/>\nthat the whole world should be enrolled.<br \/>\nThis was the first enrollment,<br \/>\nwhen Quirinius was governor of Syria.<br \/>\nSo all went to be enrolled, each to his own town.<br \/>\nAnd Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth<br \/>\nto Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem,<br \/>\nbecause he was of the house and family of David,<br \/>\nto be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.<br \/>\nWhile they were there,<br \/>\nthe time came for her to have her child,<br \/>\nand she gave birth to her firstborn son.<br \/>\nShe wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger,<br \/>\nbecause there was no room for them in the inn.<\/p>\n<p>Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields<br \/>\nand keeping the night watch over their flock.<br \/>\nThe angel of the Lord appeared to them<br \/>\nand the glory of the Lord shone around them,<br \/>\nand they were struck with great fear.<br \/>\nThe angel said to them,<br \/>\n\u201cDo not be afraid;<br \/>\nfor behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy<br \/>\nthat will be for all the people.<br \/>\nFor today in the city of David<br \/>\na savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.<br \/>\nAnd this will be a sign for you:<br \/>\nyou will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes<br \/>\nand lying in a manger.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel,<br \/>\npraising God and saying:<br \/>\n\u201cGlory to God in the highest<br \/>\nand on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel LK 2:1-14 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/6533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Christmas! Christ is born!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}