{"id":4968,"date":"2008-12-07T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:17:15","slug":"christmas-devotional-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/christmas-devotional-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Devotional 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Uchtdorf said that the angels came to the shepherds, the poor, not to the rich.  At one point in my life that would have bugged me.  Today I realized that the rich should want it that way.  If you&#8217;re wealthy and still looking for something, you don&#8217;t want to be told that your wealth is all there is.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Monson said that we have sewing rooms and dining rooms and play rooms and dens but we don&#8217;t have rooms for Christ.  In my too-literal minded way, it got me wanting a chapel room in my house  <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/private-chapels\/\">again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Night was beautiful in spite of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Uchtdorf said that the angels came to the shepherds, the poor, not to the rich. At one point in my life that would have bugged me. Today I realized that the rich should want it that way. If you&#8217;re wealthy and still looking for something, you don&#8217;t want to be told that your wealth is all there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life","tag-church-organization-and-structure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}