{"id":4625,"date":"2019-12-08T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T20:05:54","slug":"a-bjd-christmas-dec-8-faith-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4625","title":{"rendered":"a bjd christmas &#8211; dec 8 faith candle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on the second sunday of advent kiri and annalise lit the second candle.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/49188855638\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"dec 8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49188855638_cbfe02507e_z.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"640\" alt=\"dec 8\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe second candle represents faith and is called &#8220;Bethlehem\u2019s Candle.&#8221; Micah had foretold that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, which is also the birthplace of King David.  lighting this candle symbolizes the preparations being made to receive the Christ child. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the second sunday of advent kiri and annalise lit the second candle. The second candle represents faith and is called &#8220;Bethlehem\u2019s Candle.&#8221; Micah had foretold that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, which is also the birthplace of King David. lighting this candle symbolizes the preparations being made to receive the Christ child.<\/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":[520,526,525,4,535,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625"}],"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=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}