{"id":142257,"date":"2025-12-29T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142257"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:29:31","slug":"william-billings-on-christmas-your-god-extended-on-the-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142257","title":{"rendered":"William Billings on Christmas&#8211;&#8216;your God, Extended on the straw&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seek not in courts, nor palaces,<br><br>Nor royal curtains draw;<br><br>But search the stable,<br><br>see your God, Extended on the straw.<br><br>&#8211;William Billings,  Methinks I See a Heav\u2019nly Host,\u201d in The Singing Master\u2019s Assistant (1778)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire Wolds.<br>( photo taken a few weeks ago , see you after the holidays , best wishes James ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGEGOYPRSh\">pic.twitter.com\/GGEGOYPRSh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Yorkshire Wolds Weather (@WeatherWolds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeatherWolds\/status\/2003401703358628131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seek not in courts, nor palaces, Nor royal curtains draw; But search the stable, see your God, Extended on the straw. &#8211;William Billings, Methinks I See a Heav\u2019nly Host,\u201d in The Singing Master\u2019s Assistant (1778) Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142257\">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-142257","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\/142257","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=142257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142259,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142257\/revisions\/142259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}