{"id":6546,"date":"2010-12-24T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2010-12-24T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T03:27:09","slug":"a-christmas-blessing-to-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/24\/a-christmas-blessing-to-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Blessing to readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/assets\/ta201012-02-01.jpg\" alt=\"ta201012-02-01.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"335\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>May the eagerness of the shepherds,<br \/>\nThe perseverance of the wise men,<br \/>\nThe obedience of Mary and Joseph,<br \/>\nAnd the joy, peace and adoration of the angels,<br \/>\nbe yours at this Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>And the blessing of God Almighty,<br \/>\nthe Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit;<br \/>\nbe with you and remain with you always.<br \/>\n<em>Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Blessing to my Blog readers for Christmas, and with prayer for\u00a0joy and fulfilment in the new year. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bishop John\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/ta201012-00\/\">Tasmanian Anglican magazine, December 2010<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the eagerness of the shepherds, The perseverance of the wise men, The obedience of Mary and Joseph, And the joy, peace and adoration of the angels, be yours at this Christmas time. And the blessing of God Almighty, the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/24\/a-christmas-blessing-to-readers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}