{"id":450,"date":"2014-12-25T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsearch.org\/blogs\/rw\/?p=450"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:38:37","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/personal\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These familiar words bear repeating, and are still marvelous to hear and to consider.<br \/>\nWe are celebrating the incarnation together with our family\u2014and with Christians all over the world. The Good News will never get old. May its ultimate fulfillment come quickly in the return of Christ for His bride the Church&#8230; And may she be found busy about her Master&#8217;s business.<br \/>\nUntil that day, I wish you a very Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>If you would like, you may\u00a0read our family <a title=\"2014 Wattman Christmas Letter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/2014_Christmas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas letter<\/a>\u00a0(PDF), and see our <a title=\"2014 Wattman Family Christmas Card\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/2014_christmasCard_LR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas card<\/a>\u00a0(PDF).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_5373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_5373-1024x915.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5373.JPG\" width=\"584\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_5373-1024x915.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_5373-300x268.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_5373.jpg 1987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.&#8221; These familiar words bear repeating, and are still marvelous to hear and to consider. We are celebrating the incarnation together with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/personal\/merry-christmas-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}