{"id":3894,"date":"2025-12-21T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:17:52","slug":"christmas-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/12\/christmas-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Christmas Week.\u00a0\u00a0Here are ten of my favorite Christmas quotes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOne of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don&#8217;t clean it up too quickly.&#8221; Andy Rooney<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDear Santa, define &#8220;good&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGot all my Christmas shopping done. Now to shop for other people.\u201d \u00a0Conan O\u2019Brien<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI heard the bells on\u00a0Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet, the words repeat, of peace on earth, good-will to men!\u201d Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAt the Father\u2019s will,\u00a0Jesus Christ became poor and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.\u201d J.I. Packer<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s not what\u2019s under the Christmas tree that matters, it\u2019s who\u2019s around it.\u201d Charles M. Schulz<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWho among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.\u201d Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.&#8221; Charles Dickens<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMary, did you know . . .\u00a0that your baby boy is heaven&#8217;s perfect Lamb. \u00a0This sleeping child you&#8217;re holding is the great I Am.\u201d Mark Lowry<\/li>\n<li><strong><sup>\u201c<\/sup><\/strong>For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.\u201d Luke 2:11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Christmas Week.\u00a0\u00a0Here are ten of my favorite Christmas quotes. \u201cOne of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don&#8217;t clean it up too quickly.&#8221; Andy Rooney \u201cDear Santa, define &#8220;good&#8221;. \u201cGot all my Christmas shopping done. Now to shop for other people.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}