{"id":22392,"date":"2022-12-24T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22392"},"modified":"2022-12-31T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T02:27:12","slug":"christmas-eve-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22392","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22394\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22394\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Singing By Candlelight\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221224_005891.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singing By Candlelight<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the Christmas Eve service at Fourth this evening, opting for the 7:00 PM service instead of staying up for 11:00 PM as we did last year. It was a good service with good songs to sing and of course a message on the Christmas story. We are all so familiar with the story that it&#8217;s easy to take it for granted. But when the story was recorded, it was really not what you&#8217;d have expected. That is, it&#8217;s not your typical birth-of-a-king story. In fact, most of the story of the life of Jesus is different to what you might expect. We forget that because it&#8217;s so familiar. To me, this lends credence to the story rather than the opposite. If someone were simply making up a story, this is not what they&#8217;d come up with. It&#8217;s one of the reasons I believe it really happened this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Christmas Eve service at Fourth this evening, opting for the 7:00 PM service instead of staying up for 11:00 PM as we did last year. It was a good service with good songs to sing and of course a message on the Christmas story. We are all so familiar with the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22392\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[3279,317,3280,3278,3281,3028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22395,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392\/revisions\/22395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}