{"id":4605,"date":"2019-12-01T17:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2019-12-01T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:19:50","slug":"a-bjd-advent-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4605","title":{"rendered":"a bjd advent &#8211; dec 1 hope candle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>starting the 24 days of advent<br \/>\ndec 1 is the first sunday of advent , so they lit the first candle tonight.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/49154352603\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"advent sunday hope candle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49154352603_683dd3c44e_z.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"640\" alt=\"advent sunday hope candle\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\neilidh explanis to crystal that &#8220;The first candle symbolizes hope and is called the &#8220;Prophet\u2019s Candle.&#8221; The prophets of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, waited in hope for the Messiah\u2019s arrival. lighting this candle opens the period that anticipates Christmas and remembers those who first spoke the promise of the coming Christ child.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>starting the 24 days of advent dec 1 is the first sunday of advent , so they lit the first candle tonight. eilidh explanis to crystal that &#8220;The first candle symbolizes hope and is called the &#8220;Prophet\u2019s Candle.&#8221; The prophets of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah, waited in hope for the Messiah\u2019s arrival. lighting this candle opens the period that anticipates Christmas and remembers those who first spoke the promise of the coming Christ child.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,15],"tags":[520,524,525,4,311,226,67,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4645,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}