{"id":2823,"date":"2024-12-18T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:43:30","slug":"december-22-2024-more-on-hanukkah-christmas-and-the-birth-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"December 22, 2024 \u2013 More on Hanukkah, Christmas and the Birth of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we\u2019ll look at Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 1:18-2:23 and more aspects of the Hanukkah\/Christmas season. When and why did Christmas become recognized as the day of Christ\u2019s birth? What was the Star of Bethlehem, who were the Magi, and why were shepherds part of Christ\u2019s birth announcement?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/When_Jesus_Born.pdf\">Notes on \u201cWhen was Jesus Born?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Shepherds.pdf\">Notes on the Shepherds at the Birth of Christ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Christmas_2020.pdf\">Notes on the Star of Bethlehem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we\u2019ll look at Luke 2:1-20; Matthew 1:18-2:23 and more aspects of the Hanukkah\/Christmas season. When and why did Christmas become recognized as the day of Christ\u2019s birth? What was the Star of Bethlehem, who were the Magi, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}