{"id":96,"date":"2007-12-25T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/2007\/12\/25\/a-holiday-wish\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T15:26:17","slug":"a-holiday-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/a-holiday-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas presence<br \/>\nby Ralph Marston<\/p>\n<p>There is a light in the darkness. It is love; it is joy.<\/p>\n<p>There is a pure and simple radiance with a positive, joyous<br \/>\npower. It warms the hearts of those who value peace and<br \/>\nlove.<\/p>\n<p>The spirit of Christmas transcends beliefs, traditions,<br \/>\nculture and customs. It speaks directly to the heart, of<br \/>\nlove and grace, of giving and of renewal.<\/p>\n<p>In the pure, limitless power of love, life is created and<br \/>\nsustained. In the radiance of this day, love&#8217;s presence is<br \/>\njoyously expressed again and again, in countless ways.<\/p>\n<p>In this moment, new life begins. And love is the<br \/>\never-present purpose that drives every other purpose.<\/p>\n<p>On this day, you have a glimpse of how truly blessed you<br \/>\nare. Give love, give joy, and you have even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas presence by Ralph Marston There is a light in the darkness. It is love; it is joy. There is a pure and simple radiance with a positive, joyous power. It warms the hearts of those who value peace and love. The spirit of Christmas transcends beliefs, traditions, culture and customs. It speaks directly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}