{"id":166,"date":"2005-12-02T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2005-12-03T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T20:51:35","slug":"december-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/december-first\/","title":{"rendered":"December First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a White Christmas is what puts you in the mood for the holidays, do not come to Southern California. It&#8217;s over 70 degrees today, even decidious trees are still green (wait, is that possible?) <\/p>\n<p>This started as a draft yesterday, December 1st, but I didn&#8217;t have time to finish it. So here it is, December 2nd,  and I&#8217;d like to post something about Christmas every day until the 24th. <\/p>\n<p>True or False: Jesus Christ was born some time in December, so Christians designated December 25th as the day Jesus was born.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is&#8230;.mostly false. It&#8217;s a trick question. We don&#8217;t know when Jesus was born, so it could&#8217;ve been December. I&#8217;ve heard, however, that it is unlikely because the shepherds and sheep wouldn&#8217;t be out in the field in the cold winter. (So where do sheep go in the winter?) Since we don&#8217;t know when Jesus was born, it can&#8217;t be the reason why Christians designated a day in December to commemorate his birth. <\/p>\n<p>I am going read more about the origin of Christmas and write about it later, hopefully within this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a White Christmas is what puts you in the mood for the holidays, do not come to Southern California. It&#8217;s over 70 degrees today, even decidious trees are still green (wait, is that possible?) This started as a draft yesterday, December 1st, but I didn&#8217;t have time to finish it. So here it is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}