{"id":29921,"date":"2011-12-19T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_the_nativity_gets_updated_for_the_modern_age\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:17:05","slug":"ap_the_nativity_gets_updated_for_the_modern_age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29921","title":{"rendered":"(AP) The nativity gets updated for the modern age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull.<\/p>\n<p>With only twelve days to go until Christmas, a church group unveiled a poster Thursday to remind people of the religious aspect of the holiday \u201d\u201d while making a statement about modern-day extravagance.<\/p>\n<p>The poster, deliberately designed to look like a fashion photograph, has the words: &#8220;However you dress it up, Christmas starts with Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700207827\/The-nativity-gets-updated-for-the-modern-age.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull. With only twelve days to go<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29921\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,575,389,187,635,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-christmas","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29921","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=29921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}