{"id":786,"date":"2015-12-16T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:31:41","slug":"mr-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JesusAndChildren1.jpg\" alt=\"JesusAndChildren\" width=\"446\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JesusAndChildren1.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JesusAndChildren1-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">Mr. Christmas<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">With a chuckle in his tummy<br \/>\nAnd a smile upon his face,<br \/>\nHe pulled them to his knee<br \/>\n\u2018Sat them gently into place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">He spoke to them of happiness<br \/>\nAnd joys too much to tell.<br \/>\nHe laughed at wide-eyed innocence,<br \/>\nAnd voices clear as bells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">He spoke to them of coming<br \/>\nOn a very special day,<br \/>\nAnd answered whispered questions like,<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019re sure you know the way?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">That He loves little children,<br \/>\nFor all it\u2019s plain to see.<br \/>\nIt is written in His Word,<br \/>\n\u201cLet them come to Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Maston E. Jackson<br \/>\n1992\u00a0 \u00a9 All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mr. Christmas With a chuckle in his tummy And a smile upon his face, He pulled them to his knee \u2018Sat them gently into place. He spoke to them of happiness And joys too much to tell. He laughed at wide-eyed innocence, And voices clear as bells. He spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-perspectives","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}