{"id":144,"date":"2005-12-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T03:51:20","slug":"the-true-meaning-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/the-true-meaning-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Meaning of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS<\/strong>
In today’s day and time,
it’s easy to lose sight,
of the true meaning of Christmas
and one special night.When we go shopping,
We say “How much will it cost?”
Then the true meaning of Christmas,
Somehow becomes lost.<\/p>\n

Amidst the tinsel, glitter
And ribbons of gold,
We forget about the child,
born on a night so cold.<\/p>\n

The children look for Santa
In his big, red sleigh
Never thinking of the baby
Whose bed was made of hay.<\/p>\n

In reality when we look into the night sky,
We don’t see a sleigh
But a star, burning bright and high.<\/p>\n

A faithful reminder,
Of that night so long ago,
And of the child we call Jesus,
Whose love, the world would know.
By Brian K. Walters<\/a><\/p>\n

For those who want a deeper religious exploration of the meaning of Christmas please read The Meaning of Christmas: Look Deeper<\/a> by Peter Kreeft<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMASIn today’s day and time,it’s easy to lose sight,of the true meaning of Christmasand one special night.When we go shopping,We say “How much will it cost?”Then the true meaning of Christmas,Somehow becomes lost. Amidst the tinsel, glitterAnd ribbons of gold,We forget about the child,born on a night so cold. The children Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-holiday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}