{"id":4346,"date":"2013-12-24T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2013-12-24T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:31:31","slug":"4346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2013\/12\/4346\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_161545_518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4347\" alt=\"IMG_20131224_161545_518\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_161545_518-710x400.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_161545_518-710x400.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_161545_518-223x125.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_161545_518-345x194.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Christmas Eve on the Chesapeake 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John 1: 4-6:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;\u00a0the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke 2:1-14:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. <a name=\"50002002\"><\/a>This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. <a name=\"50002003\"><\/a>So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. <a name=\"50002004\"><\/a>And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son.\u00a0 She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock. <a name=\"50002009\"><\/a>The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were struck with great fear. The angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. <a name=\"50002011\"><\/a>For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. <a name=\"50002012\"><\/a>And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.\u201d <a name=\"50002013\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying:\u00a0 \u201cGlory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}