{"id":668,"date":"2006-01-16T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-07-03T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:48:47","slug":"the-christmas-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/1600\/christmas%20troll.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/200\/christmas%20troll.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F1576836819%2Fqid%3D1137386333%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\">The Christmas Troll<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dffxnkquehheesbumvmf\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nBy Eugene Peterson (NavPress, 2004)<\/p>\n<p>I bought this book a year ago because I think Peterson is a good writer and story teller. However, this book was a disappointment to me. It is nicely illustrated and the story is fine, there just was not much to it. The point of the book can be summarized in one of Peterson&#8217;s lines form the book, &#8220;Gifts are for giving and receiving, not for grabbing and getting.&#8221;\u009d That&#8217;s a fine lesson but the book simply was not as substantive as others we have read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas Troll By Eugene Peterson (NavPress, 2004) I bought this book a year ago because I think Peterson is a good writer and story teller. However, this book was a disappointment to me. It is nicely illustrated and the story is fine, there just was not much to it. The point of the book &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Christmas Troll&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}