{"id":1053,"date":"2022-12-27T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:17:51","slug":"thankful-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Thankful, Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Didn\u2019t get anything for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter.&nbsp; Not my birthday (heh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">theKid and Half were well-provisioned, which is really what\/who matters, and JESUS was likely born in the spring anyway, so \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a minute there, decided to dispense with the whole \u201ccelebration\u201d of Christmas, felt it a little too pagan for its purposes, but GOD sent a \u2026 reawakening?&nbsp; Reunderstanding?&nbsp; Whatever, HE changed my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although there will be no tree {<em>Jeremiah 10:3<\/em>}, the celebration of CHRIST\u2019s birth is well-worth getting joyous over, so yes let\u2019s do that.&nbsp; <em>But \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an altar as opposed to a tree, and a recognition that JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON, and not spending bunches and bunches of money on stuff and crap and things, had a pretty good time this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then here comes 2023.  <em>Next?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn\u2019t get anything for Christmas. No matter.&nbsp; Not my birthday (heh) theKid and Half were well-provisioned, which is really what\/who matters, and JESUS was likely born in the spring anyway, so \u2026 For a minute there, decided to dispense with the whole \u201ccelebration\u201d of Christmas, felt it a little too pagan for its purposes, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1053\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Thankful, Grateful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,28,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobuy","category-proof-of-god","category-partnership-sailed","category-kids"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}