{"id":1570,"date":"2015-12-20T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wccnc.org\/?post_type=message&#038;p=1570"},"modified":"2017-01-01T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T03:00:25","slug":"o-come-all-ye-faithful","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/o-come-all-ye-faithful","title":{"rendered":"O Come All Ye Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas carols. All of us have our favorites. I don\u2019t know what mood you\u2019re in this Christmas. Perhaps because of this warm North Carolina weather you\u2019re singing along with Bing Crosby: \u201cI\u2019m dreaming of a white Christmas.\u201d Or maybe you\u2019re missing someone this Christmas and you\u2019re humming along with Elvis: \u201cI\u2019ll have a blue Christmas without you.\u201d\u00a0Whether it\u2019s a white one or a blue one, there\u2019s just something about Christmas that makes us want to sing.<\/p>\n<p>When did all of this caroling begin? It was a little over 2,000 years ago when Christ was born and an angelic choir sang \u201cGlory to God in the highest\u201d to an audience of shepherds in Bethlehem. Faithful followers of Jesus have been singing ever since!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1420,"template":"","tags":[2015],"series":[1991],"scripture-book":[1310],"scripture-chapter":[1334],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-1570","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","series-carols","scripture-book-john","scripture-chapter-1334","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}