{"id":139,"date":"2007-12-05T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/uncategorized\/its-gonna-be-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T17:34:00","slug":"its-gonna-be-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/2007\/12\/its-gonna-be-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"Its gonna be Christmas&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;. and this Christmas is gonna be different for me. The crux is the same, but this year theres gonna be a tree, some decorations, a vacation, new clothes&#8230;!<br \/>The core is the same &#8211; its the celebration of Christ who came to save me!!<br \/>Today Becky and I went and bought the Christmas tree&#8230;. marking the beginning of an exciting season. We got a great deal and were soon zooming back home on my Kinetic Honda with the tree tucked between my legs. I logged on to the internet and played some Christmas music and soon we were unpacking the tree. It took more time than expected, but looked awesome. I decided to light it up before we started decorating it and soon the room was dark with the lit Christmas tree&#8230;. a joyful moment for Becky and I.<br \/>I took a couple of pics which you can see on this entry.<br \/>T<a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_YqeHO8rM2cg\/R1bjA7qAlHI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/zkDnSqAaW2A\/s1600-h\/treelight.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140545629843395698\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_YqeHO8rM2cg\/R1bjA7qAlHI\/AAAAAAAAAIU\/zkDnSqAaW2A\/s200\/treelight.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 115px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 152px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>he bottomline? The words of one of the songs that streamed in through my online radio reflected it!<br \/>Its called Happy Birthday Jesus<br \/>The lyrics are below:<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Happy bir<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">thday Jesus<br \/>I&#8217;m so glad its Christmas<br \/>All the tinsel and lights<br \/>And the presents are nice<br \/>But the real gift is You.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Jesus<br \/>I&#8217;m so glad its Christmas<br \/>All the carols and bells<br \/>Make the holiday swell<br \/>And it?s all about You<br \/>Happy birthday Jesus<br \/>Jesus I love You!<\/span><br \/>And thats the reason we enjoy all this so much.<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re thinking about Christmas &#8211; check out this poll about CHristmas&#8230;.. just for fun!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. and this Christmas is gonna be different for me. The crux is the same, but this year theres gonna be a tree, some decorations, a vacation, new clothes&#8230;!The core is the same &#8211; its the celebration of Christ who came to save me!!Today Becky and I went and bought the Christmas tree&#8230;. marking the beginning of an exciting season. We got a great deal and were soon zooming back home on my Kinetic Honda with the tree tucked between my legs. I logged on to the internet and played some Christmas music and soon we were unpacking the tree. It took more time than expected, but looked awesome. I decided to light it up before we started decorating it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[19,12,6,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWFfI-2f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2jdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}