{"id":125572,"date":"2023-12-25T07:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125572"},"modified":"2023-12-25T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:48:11","slug":"sharons-christmas-prayer-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125572","title":{"rendered":"Sharon\u2019s Christmas Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was five,<br \/>\nsure of the facts,<br \/>\nand recited them<br \/>\nwith slow solemnity<br \/>\nconvinced every word<br \/>\nwas revelation.<\/p>\n<p>She said<br \/>\nthey were so poor<br \/>\nthey had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches<br \/>\nto eat<br \/>\nand they went a long way from home<br \/>\nwithout getting lost. The lady rode<br \/>\na donkey, the man walked, and the baby<br \/>\nwas inside the lady.<br \/>\nThey had to stay in a stable<br \/>\nwith an ox and an ass (hee-hee)<br \/>\nbut the Three Rich Men found them<br \/>\nbecause a star lited the roof.<br \/>\nShepherds came and you could<br \/>\npet the sheep but not feed them.<br \/>\nThen the baby was borned.<br \/>\nAnd do you know who he was?<br \/>\nHer quarter eyes inflated<br \/>\nto silver dollars.<br \/>\nThe baby was God.<\/p>\n<p>And she jumped in the air<br \/>\nwhirled around, dove into the sofa<br \/>\nand buried her head under the cushion<br \/>\nwhich is the only proper response<br \/>\nto the Good News of the Incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John Shea, <b>The Hour of the Unexpected<\/b>; <i>one of my favourite Christmas poems, read every year on this day<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f31f;Frohe Weihnachten &#x1f384;&#x1f31f;&#x1f384; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qbMQu95tH7\">pic.twitter.com\/qbMQu95tH7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#x1f4ab;Stein_harmonie&#x1f340;&#x1f9da;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f; (@SteinHarmonie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteinHarmonie\/status\/1739182758251880686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2023<\/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>She was five, sure of the facts, and recited them with slow solemnity convinced every word was revelation. She said they were so poor they had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to eat and they went a long way<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125572\">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":[575,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125572","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=125572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125575,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125572\/revisions\/125575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}