{"id":117690,"date":"2022-12-30T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117690"},"modified":"2022-12-30T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:52:07","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-john-rw-stott-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117690","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Christmas from John RW Stott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord Jesus Christ, at whose birth the praises of God were sung by a multitude of the heavenly host: Unite our voices now with theirs, and grant that\u2026[this Christmas] we may worship thee with joyful lips and humble hearts; for the glory of thy great name.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mystical Nativity is an exquisite oil on canvas painting dated c. 1500\u20131501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli.<\/p>\n<p>Evokes fond memories of an art class I took at Regents University held at the National Gallery in London many moons ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m9U1opN4EU\">pic.twitter.com\/m9U1opN4EU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Cathy Tirrell, L.C.P. (@DrTirrell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTirrell\/status\/1606983302337929218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2022<\/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>O Lord Jesus Christ, at whose birth the praises of God were sung by a multitude of the heavenly host: Unite our voices now with theirs, and grant that\u2026[this Christmas] we may worship thee with joyful lips and humble hearts;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117690\">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":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117690","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=117690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117692,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117690\/revisions\/117692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}