{"id":108,"date":"2006-12-06T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2006-12-06T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T04:27:00","slug":"happy-new-year_05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/happy-new-year_05\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_6389 (Small)-777173.JPG\" jpg=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_6389 (Small)-775282.JPG\" jpg=\"\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Advent, the beginning of a new church year, and the time of year when we risk our lives hanging Christmas lights!  Seriously, this weekend I was hanging one-handed from the apex of our house in order to clip on these lights.  But clearly, it was totally worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew people looked forward to a Messiah, and He has come!  Advent is a time for repentance when we remember the wondrous way that God &#8220;became flesh and dwelt among us,&#8221; and we look forward to His second coming.<\/p>\n<p>For audio devotionals every day during Advent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctsfw.edu\/admission\/advent\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Advent, the beginning of a new church year, and the time of year when we risk our lives hanging Christmas lights! Seriously, this weekend I was hanging one-handed from the apex of our house in order to clip on these lights. But clearly, it was totally worth it. The Hebrew people looked forward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}