{"id":6467,"date":"2021-12-25T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6467","title":{"rendered":"MERRY CHRISTMAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wish for all is that you, now as an adult, might find a bit of that magic you experienced as a child during Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The great thing is that now that we have grown up, we have the opportunity to know what C.S. Lewis described as the &#8220;deeper magic&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though I am a bit of a Grinch about various aspects of our modern celebration, Christmas as a reminder of the dawning of a new reality for mankind &#8211; &#8220;God with us&#8221; &#8211; gets me every time. And THAT is what finally puts me &#8220;in the Christmas spirit&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately for my family, it doesn&#8217;t happen until Christmas Eve.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, Merry Christmas! And may we all live in the reality of God&#8217;s deeper magic today and every day of the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgGsiN9Ft-fjyz8a66xDL8UvcqWFwsdmyJ3fz3x_1SxRitxddwZORPxJy9qWURFB8qJvlPHjCsL0rdUvIOl-pUityegeTEu9wZnky9GSWo4w0y9IzegYkyMBe5_vqUPcuNCxAhKvWlDbT8TK9LZy6JF3CsHEflf46yeb-ucUo4H9XPRGiegiQkmH7rL=w312-h640\" alt=\"\" width=\"839\" height=\"1723\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wish for all is that you, now as an adult, might find a bit of that magic you experienced as a child during Christmas.\u00a0 The great thing is that now that we have grown up, we have the opportunity to know what C.S. Lewis described as the &#8220;deeper magic&#8221;.\u00a0 Even though I am a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}