{"id":6175,"date":"2008-12-20T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/12\/20\/the_bard_of_the_grey_wind_speaks_about_c\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T21:31:49","slug":"the_bard_of_the_grey_wind_speaks_about_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/12\/20\/the_bard_of_the_grey_wind_speaks_about_c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bard Of The Grey Wind Speaks About Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was reading the blog of Edward Waters<\/strong>, someone I consider a friend, and I was struck by how much his thoughts and mine are blown by the same wind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both of us make Advent a cornerstone of our Christmas worship<\/li>\n<li>We both agree on the ability of God to redeem even the pagan things of culture and turn them into things that glorify him<\/li>\n<li>We are both saddened by the commercial manifestations of Christmas<\/li>\n<li>We both marvel at the awesomeness of the incarnation of God in the form of a child for our salvation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bardofthegreywind.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/truth-in-familiar-accessible-form_07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post about Christmas<\/a><\/strong> is a worthy read, and I encourage everyone to take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bardofthegreywind.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backporch.org\/edwardwaters\/media\/Image\/edward_in_snow2.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"The Bard Of The Grey Wind\" title=\"The Bard Of The Grey Wind\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, you can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backporch.org\/edwardwaters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out his excellent music here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 83<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI was reading the blog of Edward Waters, someone I consider a friend, and I was struck by how much&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/12\/20\/the_bard_of_the_grey_wind_speaks_about_c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Bard Of The Grey Wind Speaks About Christmas&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,35,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-reading","category-holidays-holy-days","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/edward_in_snow23.jpg?fit=450%2C299","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1BB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}