{"id":626,"date":"2020-12-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.com\/wpbobnichols\/?p=626"},"modified":"2020-03-31T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T03:35:01","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2020\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day we celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As you celebrate with friends and family please be sure to include Jesus! After all He is the reason for the season! I pray for God&#8217;s blessings to be on you today and every day. Have a very Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"627\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2020\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/christisborn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ChristisBorn.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Rustic alphabet blocks arranged to say, \\&quot;Crhist is born.\\&quot;  They&#039;re topped with a heart-block and a small nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.  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On a white background.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ChristisBorn.jpg?fit=525%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ChristisBorn.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ChristisBorn.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ChristisBorn.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day we celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As you celebrate with friends and family please be sure to include Jesus! After all He is the reason for the season! I pray for God&#8217;s blessings to be on you today and every day. Have a very Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lc9u-a6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":841,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/02\/14\/what-is-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":626,"position":0},"title":"What is Love?","author":"admin","date":"February 14, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"For many centuries people have celebrated Valentine's Day all over the world. 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