{"id":66867,"date":"2018-01-03T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66867"},"modified":"2018-01-03T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:56:34","slug":"the-archbishop-of-sydneys-christmas-message-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66867","title":{"rendered":"The Archbishop of Sydney\u2019s Christmas Message for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/sydneyanglicans.net\/mediareleases\/archbishops-christmas-message-2017\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter now seems to be the preferred method of communication for at least one of our world leaders. <\/p>\n<p>With a limit of 280 characters\u2013it is difficult to say much\u2013let alone explain anything complex.  Who knows what might happen if the leader of another country takes something the wrong way?<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s communication with us\u2013the Bible\u2013stretches to more than three and a half million characters.<\/p>\n<p>But what would that be if we tweeted it?  Let me try.<\/p>\n<p>God creates the world We rebel God sends his Son Jesus into our world to be born in a stable + grow up to die on a cross but that\u2019s not the end He defeats death + is raised to life offering every1 freedom from death. In short\u2014a baby born in a shed saves the world #canyoubelieveit<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the sweetest tweet you\u2019ll ever hear\u2014but this Christmas, why not get the full picture by reading the Gospel of Luke in a modern version of the Bible.  It won\u2019t take you long.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Glenn N Davies<br \/>\nArchbishop of Sydney<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Twitter now seems to be the preferred method of communication for at least one of our world leaders. With a limit of 280 characters\u2013it is difficult to say much\u2013let alone explain anything complex. Who knows what might happen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66867\">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":[395,575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867","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=66867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66869,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions\/66869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}