{"id":95763,"date":"2021-06-26T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95763"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:49:11","slug":"happy-christmas-to-all-and-to-all-a-good-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/happy-christmas-to-all-and-to-all-a-good-night\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas memories show that we were <strong>happy<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>We grew up with the most loving story we knew, being that of <strong>Christmas<\/strong> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>of a baby born to fulfill a promise made eons ago <strong>to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>universal ancestors I cannot possibly know at <strong>all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In my lifetime, whether it was easy or hard, we always had Mass <strong>and<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gifts that showed caring a commitment <strong>to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Share loving care \u2013 with well chosen gifts &#8212; for <strong>all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After all, that baby was GOD\u2019s son coming to us \u2013<strong> a<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bit unworthy to be sure, but often trying to be <strong>good<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And starting with Midnight Mass gave us a very special <strong>night<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>By Nancy Ann Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a \u201cGolden Shovel poem\u201d meaning it took a line (or more) from an admired poem and<\/p>\n<p>uses the words of that line, (in the same order) as the last words for each line of the poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas memories show that we were happy, We grew up with the most loving story we knew, being that of Christmas &#8211; of a baby born to fulfill a promise made eons ago to universal ancestors I cannot possibly know at all. In my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[719,1588],"class_list":["post-95763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-christmas","tag-golden-shovel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95763\/revisions\/95776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}