{"id":334,"date":"2008-12-18T14:14:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2009-04-14T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T20:35:16","slug":"christmas-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2008-12-18\/christmas-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/katymoon\/2138401169\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candles in a Window\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2025\/2138401169_66a913e3a1.jpg?v=0\" title=\"Candles in a Window\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around Christmastide, it is a common custom to place candles in the windows of houses at nighttime. For many people, this may just be decoration, but it is an meaningful and noble tradition. A house with candles is a beacon in the darkness; a shelter for travelers and the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, if a pregnant teenager and her 35 year old husband came to your door and asked to stay the night and give birth in your house, would you welcome them in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around Christmastide, it is a common custom to place candles in the windows of houses at nighttime. For many people, this may just be decoration, but it is an meaningful and noble tradition. A house with candles is a beacon in the darkness; a shelter for travelers and the homeless. This Christmas, if a pregnant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[190,189],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-untagged","tag-candle","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}