{"id":4062,"date":"2012-12-24T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"a-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-christmas-message\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw this Christmas video a year ago &#8211; or almost the same; they&#8217;ve updated it some.\u00a0 I remember being impressed with this mostly because of it&#8217;s wonderful Christmas message but also because Becky Kelley and her family live in St. Louis, very near where Marie and I used to live before we came here.\u00a0 Her father arranged the music and played the piano and her bother did all the video work and composition &#8211; at least on the original.\u00a0 We used to shop in the mall where those scenes were shot.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s particularly relevant right now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OExXItDyWEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If for any reason it does not play for you [<a title=\"Watch it on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OExXItDyWEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch it on YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw this Christmas video a year ago &ndash; or almost the same; they&rsquo;ve updated it some.&nbsp; I remember being impressed with this mostly because of it&rsquo;s wonderful Christmas message but also because Becky Kelley and her family live in St. Louis, very near where Marie and I used to live before we came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-christmas-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Christmas Message&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21571,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/21571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}