{"id":51,"date":"2008-12-26T15:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelgreenlief.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2008-12-26T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T21:27:39","slug":"whew-am-i-glad-thats-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2008\/12\/26\/whew-am-i-glad-thats-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Whew am I glad Christmas is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do love Christmas but I&#8217;m so glad when it&#8217;s all over and I can just sit back and relax for a day or two.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rush here and go there and wrap this and &#8216;Oh no, I forgot that!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what I forgot to buy for who, I will not go out shopping the last week before Christmas.\u00a0 I hate the way they commercialize Christmas.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not what it should be.\u00a0 It should be a time to celebrate with family and loved ones.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus.\u00a0 Not a celebration to the gift god.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many people don&#8217;t realize that Santa Clause represents the Three Wise Men bringing their gifts to the Baby Jesus at night so as not to bring trouble to him.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how Santa Clause came about and what he stands for.\u00a0 Christmas is a celebration of children but we need to all make sure that even the youngest child knows what we are celebrating and why.<\/p>\n<p>Sure they are the center of Christmas but the true center of Christmas is Jesus Christ.\u00a0 No I&#8217;m not a religious fanatic but I do know that there is something or someone greater than I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do love Christmas but I&#8217;m so glad when it&#8217;s all over and I can just sit back and relax for a day or two.\u00a0 It&#8217;s rush here and go there and wrap this and &#8216;Oh no, I forgot that!&#8217; I don&#8217;t care what I forgot to buy for who, I will not go out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2008\/12\/26\/whew-am-i-glad-thats-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whew am I glad Christmas is over&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family","category-holidays","category-rants-and-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}