{"id":750,"date":"2007-01-03T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T18:03:54","slug":"how-great-our-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"How Great Our Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/RZtB4-hab-I\/AAAAAAAAABA\/Pa84ihEL58Q\/s1600-h\/how+great+our+joy.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015675057118801890\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/RZtB4-hab-I\/AAAAAAAAABA\/Pa84ihEL58Q\/s320\/how+great+our+joy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHow-Great-Our-Raymond-Ortlund%2Fdp%2F0805437843%2Fsr%3D11-1%2Fqid%3D1167802529&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">How Great Our Joy: Family Memories &amp; Meditations for Christmas<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"eqnoxeshosnsbycfxqoj\" 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 \/>\nRay and Anne Ortlund<br \/>\n(B&amp;H, 2001), small hb., 124 pp.<\/div>\n<p>I am late in getting some Christmas books posted, but I&#8217;ll go ahead and put them up. They&#8217;ll be here for next year and you might be able to get them on sale now! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This little book has been a favorite of ours. It was one of the first ones that my wife and I found where a godly family discussed some of their own traditions. The book is not systematic discussion of a topic but a collection of musings on Christmas themes with interspersed reflections on their own family gatherings and classic paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Great Our Joy: Family Memories &amp; Meditations for Christmas Ray and Anne Ortlund (B&amp;H, 2001), small hb., 124 pp. I am late in getting some Christmas books posted, but I&#8217;ll go ahead and put them up. They&#8217;ll be here for next year and you might be able to get them on sale now! \ud83d\ude42 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;How Great Our Joy&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":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}