{"id":97,"date":"2008-12-17T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbcbeacon.wordpress.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-12-17T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:43:41","slug":"editors-note-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2008\/12\/17\/editors-note-december-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#039;s Note: December 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Steven Hong<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas! It\u2019s sad to think that such a joyful greeting is quickly becoming a controversial message.Maybe even as early as three years ago, we could say those words without a second thought. Today, a world that is so evidently opposed to Christianity considers it a message of intoleration.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, while dining at a local restaurant with roommates, our waitress greeted us with those words unashamedly: \u201cMerry Christmas!\u201d She smiled, paused, and then explained, \u201cThe real meaning of Christmas. You know what that is, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas season, remember your identity in Christ, as we celebrate the humble birth of an infant that would be our Savior and King!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steven Hong Merry Christmas! It\u2019s sad to think that such a joyful greeting is quickly becoming a controversial message.Maybe even as early as three years ago, we could say those words without a second thought. Today, a world that is so evidently opposed to Christianity considers it a message of intoleration. Last year, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-note"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}