{"id":23319,"date":"2023-12-24T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23319"},"modified":"2024-01-06T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:26:33","slug":"christmas-eve-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23319","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23321\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23321\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Eve\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/img_20231224_014449.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Eve<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With my beard and wearing a red and white &#8216;Santa hat&#8217; this morning I was asked if I would stand in for Santa in a picture with some friends&#8217; kids. I was happy to oblige, of course. This evening we returned to church for our Christmas Eve service, which is a real favorite of mine. Sadly, there are more good Christmas hymns than there is time for in a service and some of my favorites are inevitably missed. We do end, as many churches do, with a song sung by candlelight. We sang <em>Silent Night<\/em>, where our former church ended with <em>Joy to the World<\/em>. I took pictures and of course without flash, had to set the camera at a high ISO. The pictures are naturally lower quality because of that but it gives them more of the feel of candlelight, anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my beard and wearing a red and white &#8216;Santa hat&#8217; this morning I was asked if I would stand in for Santa in a picture with some friends&#8217; kids. I was happy to oblige, of course. This evening we returned to church for our Christmas Eve service, which is a real favorite of mine. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23319\">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":[3279,426,1429,1973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319"}],"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=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23360,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions\/23360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}