{"id":34680,"date":"2025-12-01T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34680"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:17:05","slug":"jesse-tree-day-1-adam-and-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34680","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar &#8211; Day 1 &#8211; Adam and Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025120103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMost people who opened the first door on their Advent calendar today will have found a picture or a piece of chocolate. But at St Helen\u2019s Church there\u2019s a different kind of calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Each day, a new figure is added to the Jesse Tree, tracing the family line from Adam all the way to Jesus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025120104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday, Monday 1st December, it began with Adam and Eve \u2014 complete with serpent and apple. As the first people in the biblical story, they mark the beginning of humanity and the start of the journey that the Jesse Tree will follow through Advent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who opened the first door on their Advent calendar today will have found a picture or a piece of chocolate. But at St Helen\u2019s Church there\u2019s a different kind of calendar. Each day, a new figure is added to the Jesse Tree, tracing the family line from Adam all the way to Jesus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}