{"id":117897,"date":"2023-01-09T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117897"},"modified":"2023-01-09T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T23:11:35","slug":"shns-bright-bonfires-mark-real-end-of-christmas-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117897","title":{"rendered":"(SHNS) Bright Bonfires Mark the Real End of the Christmas Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same thing happens to Father Kendall Harmon every year during the 12 days after the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>It happens with newcomers at his home parish, Christ-St. Paul&#8217;s in Yonges Island, South Carolina, near Charleston. It often happens when, as Canon Theologian, he visits other parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I greet people and say &#8216;Merry Christmas!&#8217; all the way through the 12 days&#8221; of the season, he said, laughing. &#8220;They look at me like I&#8217;m a Martian or I&#8217;m someone who is lost. &#8230; So many people just don&#8217;t know there&#8217;s more Christmas after Christmas Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmatt.net\/columns\/2015\/12\/30\/bright-bonfires-to-mark-end-of-the-12-days-of-christmas-season?rq=bonfire\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bright bonfires to mark end of the 12 days of Christmas season <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R65BgXK4gr\">https:\/\/t.co\/R65BgXK4gr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/epiphany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#epiphany<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/christmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/parishministry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#parishministry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zDxsWREYZv\">pic.twitter.com\/zDxsWREYZv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1479588712690425862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 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>The same thing happens to Father Kendall Harmon every year during the 12 days after the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It happens with newcomers at his home parish, Christ-St. Paul&#8217;s in Yonges Island, South Carolina, near Charleston. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=117897\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117897","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=117897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117899,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117897\/revisions\/117899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}