{"id":7903,"date":"2012-12-20T00:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2012-12-20T00:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T23:43:23","slug":"the-days-have-been-growing-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lights outside houses &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12121807.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe days have been growing shorter and the nights growing longer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12121810.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe lights that a lot of house owners put out at Christmas brighten what could be a depressing time of year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12121804.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Festival\" \/><br \/>\nSuch winter celebrations are supposed to have their origin in pagan festivals, decking the halls with bows of holly etc. &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12121801.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThere are three months until the spring. So not a bad thing to have a good time and find new hope for the year ahead, whatever your beliefs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days have been growing shorter and the nights growing longer. The lights that a lot of house owners put out at Christmas brighten what could be a depressing time of year. Such winter celebrations are supposed to have their origin in pagan festivals, decking the halls with bows of holly etc. &#8230; There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","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=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}