{"id":372,"date":"2013-12-06T20:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T02:07:21","slug":"live-nativity-122213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Live Nativity (12\/22\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Join our spiritual journey on Sunday, December 22 from 6:30 &#8211; 8:00 PM (after the cantata!).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Drive or walk through the parking lot to see the biblical story of Christmas being told.\u00a0 Step back in time to see the soldiers, shepherds, wisemen, and the manger with Baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.\u00a0 See (or pet) the live animals. Share in this experience that will bring the wonder of the first Christmas to life before your eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">See the story&#8230; and join the story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Our parking lot is clear now, but on Sunday December 8 we were blanketed with the season&#8217;s first snow.\u00a0 Was the first Christmas was really &#8220;a cold winter&#8217;s night that was so deep?&#8221; Probably not.\u00a0 But to get some flavor for that that first Nativity Scene might have looked like, here&#8217;s one of the Nativity Cutout Scenes that lines our driveway:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3010\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nativity-2013-12-08-_6D9A8438-300x162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3010\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nativity-2013-12-08-_6D9A8438-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"Nativity scene after snow (12\/8\/13)\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nativity scene after snow (12\/8\/13)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Of course, our Live Nativity on the 22nd won&#8217;t be made out of plywood!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>And as beautiful as the snow was, the coming of our Savior on that first Christmas was even more beautiful.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join our spiritual journey on Sunday, December 22 from 6:30 &#8211; 8:00 PM (after the cantata!).\u00a0 Drive or walk through the parking lot to see the biblical story of Christmas being told.\u00a0 Step back in time to see the soldiers, shepherds, wisemen, and the manger with Baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.\u00a0 See (or pet) the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,55],"tags":[123,83],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evann","category-mission-aroundtowns","tag-christmas","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}