{"id":27591,"date":"2014-12-24T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27591"},"modified":"2014-12-22T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T09:26:00","slug":"the-best-of-the-season-to-you-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/24\/the-best-of-the-season-to-you-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Of The Season To You All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/fun-stuff-trying-the-new-i-make-a-floral-wreath\/spring-graden-009a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-17098\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Graden 009a\" width=\"208\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a.jpg 271w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>I have something else for the blog tomorrow, so I thought I&#8217;d take the opportunity now to wish you the very best of the Christmas and New Year holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Christmas has come to be more closely associated with the jingle of cash registers than sleigh bells (regardless of hemispheres!)&#8212;but I like to remember author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Howard_Thurman\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Thurman&#8217;s<\/a> reminder that the <em>&#8220;work of Christmas&#8221;<\/em> is:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;To find the lost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To heal the broken<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To feed the hungry<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To release the prisoner<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To rebuild the nations<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To bring peace among people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking at recent news, the reminder feels more vital than ever.<\/p>\n<p>May the very best of the season find you all, wherever you are and whatever you may be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have something else for the blog tomorrow, so I thought I&#8217;d take the opportunity now to wish you the very best of the Christmas and New Year holiday season. Sadly, Christmas has come to be more closely associated with the jingle of cash registers than sleigh bells (regardless of hemispheres!)&#8212;but I like to remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27596,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27591\/revisions\/27596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}