{"id":764,"date":"2025-12-19T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:07:05","slug":"merry-christmas-and-a-blessed-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1d670f82aece8ab52b4960be3ba54925\"><strong>The Joy of Giving<\/strong><br>~&nbsp;<em>John Greenleaf Whittier<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d2f0ea9b8b1b6eef242213d8458fba9d\">Somehow, not only for Christmas,<br>But all the long year through,<br>The joy that you give to others<br>Is the joy that comes back to you;<br>And the more you spend in blessing<br>The poor and lonely and sad,<br>The more of your heart&#8217;s possessing<br>Returns to make you glad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joy of Giving~&nbsp;John Greenleaf Whittier Somehow, not only for Christmas,But all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you;And the more you spend in blessingThe poor and lonely and sad,The more of your heart&#8217;s possessingReturns to make you glad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-uncategorized","tag-merry-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}