{"id":950,"date":"2015-12-29T03:08:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-12-29T03:08:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T12:08:33","slug":"dec-29-the-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Dec 29 &#8211; The Christmas Gift!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Dec 29 &#8211; The Christmas Gift!\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=950\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gifts-wrapped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-951\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gifts-wrapped.jpg\" alt=\"gifts wrapped\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I conducted a funeral service on Monday.\u00a0 The deceased died peacefully on December 25, 2015.\u00a0 At first you might be tempted to say Christmas Day is a horrible day for anyone to die.\u00a0 In most cases I might agree, but not in this case.\u00a0 The person who died had declined in health status to the point where she had no quality of life.\u00a0 At the funeral service I said, \u201cThis year Jamie received the ultimate Christmas gift, the gift of eternal peace.\u201d\u00a0 What better gift is there no matter what day we receive eternal life?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I conducted a funeral service on Monday.\u00a0 The deceased died peacefully on December 25, 2015.\u00a0 At first you might be tempted to say Christmas Day is a horrible day for anyone to die.\u00a0 In most cases I might agree, but not in this case.\u00a0 The person who died had declined in health status to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dec 29 &#8211; The Christmas Gift!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}