{"id":108174,"date":"2021-12-25T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108174"},"modified":"2021-12-25T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T22:45:24","slug":"bbc-in-pictures-the-world-celebrates-christmas-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108174","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) In pictures: the World celebrates Christmas in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People across the world are celebrating Christmas &#8211; one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar. However, for the second year in a row, there are smaller crowds at church services and other events because of the continuing coronavirus outbreak. Here&#8217;s our snapshot of global festivities&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-59787319\">Take the time to go though them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some wonderful photographs in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCWorld<\/a>&#39;s \u201cIn pictures: World celebrates Christmas\u201d, but this one from Bethlehem has the feel of a Rembrandt painting <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m9hJHUEZ1W\">https:\/\/t.co\/m9hJHUEZ1W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p9qCF5Gdiw\">pic.twitter.com\/p9qCF5Gdiw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Pullinger (@larkingrumple) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larkingrumple\/status\/1474659017406521347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People across the world are celebrating Christmas &#8211; one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar. However, for the second year in a row, there are smaller crowds at church services and other events because of the continuing coronavirus<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108174\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,119,195,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-globalization","category-photosphotography","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108179,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108174\/revisions\/108179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}