{"id":315,"date":"2004-12-24T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T06:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/24\/merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2004-12-24T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-25T06:36:53","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/24\/merry-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Christ\u00admas Eve and I\u2019m off to bed, so have a mer\u00adry Christ\u00admas. The well-known words of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Watts\">Isaac Watts<\/a> express my sen\u00adti\u00adments best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJoy to the world! the Lord is come:<br>\nlet earth receive her King;<br>\nlet every heart pre\u00adpare him room,<br>\nand heav\u00aden and nature sing,<br>\nand heav\u00aden and nature sing,<br>\nand heav\u00aden, and heav\u00aden and nature sing.<\/p>\n<p>Joy to the world! the Sav\u00adior reigns;<br>\nlet us our songs employ,<br>\nwhile fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains<br>\nrepeat the sound\u00ading joy,<br>\nrepeat the sound\u00ading joy,<br>\nrepeat, repeat the sound\u00ading joy.<\/p>\n<p>No more let sins and sor\u00adrows grow,<br>\nnor thorns infest the ground;<br>\nhe comes to make his bless\u00adings flow<br>\nfar as the curse is found,<br>\nfar as the curse is found,<br>\nfar as, far as the curse is found.<\/p>\n<p>He rules the world with truth and grace,<br>\nand makes the nations prove<br>\nthe glo\u00adries of his right\u00adeous\u00adness,<br>\nand won\u00adders of his love,<br>\nand won\u00adders of his love,<br>\nand won\u00adders, won\u00adders of his love.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I\u2019m off to have visions of sug\u00adarplums dance in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Christ\u00admas Eve and I\u2019m off to bed, so have a mer\u00adry Christ\u00admas. The well-known words of Isaac Watts express my sen\u00adti\u00adments best: Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King; let every heart pre\u00adpare him room, and heav\u00aden and nature sing, and heav\u00aden and nature sing, and heav\u00aden, and \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/24\/merry-christmas\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMer\u00adry Christ\u00admas!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-55","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}