{"id":573890666,"date":"2016-12-25T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T02:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890666"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:51:45","slug":"merry-christmas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love coming to church here. My great-grandfather donated the land for the building. He and just about everybody else in my family has been a deacon or led the singing or preached or prayed over the congregation. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec16\/dec15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all older now, but we&#8217;re all older now. Most of us, anyway, and this was one of the places where I learned about singing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we brought Allie with us:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec16\/dec16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s an excellent traveler, and she&#8217;s feeling right at home at her grandhooman&#8217;s place. She will climb all over you to reach a piece of furniture that holds her interest. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec16\/dec17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And we went to visit my grandmother, too: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec16\/dec18.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to you and your family. Enjoy your time together and your traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love coming to church here. My great-grandfather donated the land for the building. He and just about everybody else in my family has been a deacon or led the singing or preached or prayed over the congregation. They&#8217;re all older now, but we&#8217;re all older now. Most of us, anyway, and this was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-memories","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890669,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890666\/revisions\/573890669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}