{"id":47720,"date":"2015-01-05T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_artful_hand_of_god_the_story_behind_the_nativity\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:44:00","slug":"the_artful_hand_of_god_the_story_behind_the_nativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47720","title":{"rendered":"The Artful hand of God: The story behind the Nativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stained glass Nativity that graces the front page of The State\u2019s Christmas Day edition was made by Chapin resident Ruthanne Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>Her artistic story \u201d\u201c and her love of the sacred Bethlehem manger scene \u201d\u201c is rooted in the life of her late mother, an Easley resident who was the first of the family\u2019s stained glass artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy story is my mother\u2019s story,\u201d\u009d Nicholson said. Her mother, Ruth Gettys, was a member of Easley Presbyterian Church when it burned in 1983, reducing the church to rubble and mounds of broken stained glass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/12\/24\/3892895\/the-story-behind-the-nativity.html?sp=\/99\/132\/154\/513\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/media.thestate.com\/smedia\/2014\/12\/24\/21\/07\/11Zex4.So.74.jpeg\">see what you make of her rendition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stained glass Nativity that graces the front page of The State\u2019s Christmas Day edition was made by Chapin resident Ruthanne Nicholson. Her artistic story \u201d\u201c and her love of the sacred Bethlehem manger scene \u201d\u201c is rooted in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47720\">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":[48,39,54,130,575,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-art","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47720","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=47720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}