{"id":2513,"date":"2016-12-11T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wccnc.org\/?post_type=message&#038;p=2513"},"modified":"2017-01-01T02:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T02:52:31","slug":"a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-christmas-carol","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Several movies and plays have been based on Charles Dickens\u2019 book, which was first published in London in 1843. The most recent movie version was by Disney featuring the voice-over of Jim Carrey. We learn in this movie that Scrooge doesn&#8217;t know how to &#8220;keep&#8221; Christmas until several spirits visit him and bring about a change of heart. But does the book and movie miss what it means to keep Christmas?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2452,"template":"","tags":[2015,2017,2018],"series":[2005],"scripture-book":[1310],"scripture-chapter":[1336],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-2513","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","tag-movies","tag-popular-culture","series-christmas-at-the-movies","scripture-book-john","scripture-chapter-1336","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/2513","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\/2513\/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=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}