{"id":3945,"date":"2005-12-24T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:57:25","slug":"and-the-darkness-comprehendeth-it-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"And the darkness comprehendeth it not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/angel%20barnabas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/angel%20barnabas.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/angel%20gabriel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/angel%20gabriel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Someone said to me the other day (possibly quoting Washington Irving?) that you need a small child to teach you the meaning of Christmas. <\/p>\n<p>This is true. <\/p>\n<p>You also need one (or, better, two) to distract a father from his pessimistic preoccupations.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you all a blessed feast of the Incarnation of our Saviour.<\/p>\n<p>(Time to wrap some presents)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone said to me the other day (possibly quoting Washington Irving?) that you need a small child to teach you the meaning of Christmas. This is true. You also need one (or, better, two) to distract a father from his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-11D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6573,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}