{"id":52733,"date":"2015-12-25T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_the_queens_christmas_2015_message_full_text\/"},"modified":"2015-12-25T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T22:20:21","slug":"bbc_the_queens_christmas_2015_message_full_text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52733","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) The Queen&#39;s Christmas 2015 message: full text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people say the first Christmas after losing a loved one is particularly hard. But it&#8217;s also a time to remember all that we have to be thankful for.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that the world has had to confront moments of darkness this year, but the Gospel of John contains a verse of great hope, often read at Christmas carol services: &#8220;The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One cause for thankfulness this summer was marking 70 years since the end of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>On VJ Day, we honoured the remaining veterans of that terrible conflict in the Far East, as well as remembering the thousands who never returned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-35178485\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people say the first Christmas after losing a loved one is particularly hard. But it&#8217;s also a time to remember all that we have to be thankful for. It is true that the world has had to confront moments<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52733\">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":[48,39,40,50,575,187,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733","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=52733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}