{"id":435,"date":"2019-12-21T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/?p=435"},"modified":"2019-12-21T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:06:00","slug":"winters-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/winters-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter&#8217;s Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Christmas 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAs winter\u2019s shadows deepen, and the nights grow cold and long,<br \/>\nWe pierce the dark with festive lights and cheer our hearts with joyful song;<br \/>\nOur souls are warmed with laughter, and the love of friends and kin,<br \/>\nAnd with the blessings in our homes, we ease the cares that dwell within.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nBut winter&#8217;s shadows, even so, make claim upon the brightest times,<br \/>\nAnd frigid air can breach the seals of rooms that hold the warmest climes;<br \/>\nWe strive to raise a bulwark for the treasures of our hearts,<br \/>\nBut dark does not respect our walls, and mocks the efforts of our arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yet winter&#8217;s shadows cannot match the deathly dark of sin,<br \/>\nAnd human effort sheds no warmth upon the aching cold within \u2026<br \/>\nSo Christ was born in Bethlehem, the Lord of love and light,<br \/>\nTo cast away our shadows and destroy our hopeless night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Copyright \u00a9 2019 David B. Hawthorne<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2019 As winter\u2019s shadows deepen, and the nights grow cold and long, We pierce the dark with festive lights and cheer our hearts with joyful song; Our souls are warmed with laughter, and the love of friends and kin, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/winters-shadows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKc6t-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhawthorne.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}