{"id":1811,"date":"2010-12-20T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:38:07","slug":"now-this-is-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Now THIS is a Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I think The Bloggess is an inspiration to women &#8230;and people who blog &#8230;and writer&#8217;s searching for expression EVERYWHERE.\u00a0 She&#8217;s wacky and funny with a wonderful talent with photos and interent tweaking.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s also insightful and sometimes soul-rippingly <\/strong><\/span><strong>personal its a testimonial to her bravery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This blog&#8230;<em> (as wonderful as her Red Dress posting)<\/em>,\u00a0 to me&#8230; is the the most amazing example of the core meaning of the Holiday Season.\u00a0 And I say Holiday Season instead of Christmas because its the core beliefs of the Christian religion we admire not the crazy faith of believing the miracles it took the people of 1 AD to belief the basic teachings of <em>love-thy-fellow-man<\/em> that Jesus taught.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, many religions have similar beliefs and end up wasting a lot of their energy in persuading others that their version is MORE correct than another religions.\u00a0 So many times a church&#8217;s money goes to send people to another country to &#8220;mission&#8221; the people of that country to that church&#8217;s belief system.\u00a0 I am adamantly against this.\u00a0 I look around at the &#8220;NEED&#8221; that exists right here.\u00a0 A need that money can help fix and grumble that perhaps any church should just evangelize with good works and let others ask and skip the whole &#8220;mission&#8221; fiasco.\u00a0 In this day with the internet, if I want to know about a religion.. there is tons of information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I digress.\u00a0 Because The Bloggess has managed to accidentally stumble into the true meaning of giving with a simple posting.\u00a0 Try to read this without getting tearful, I dare ya!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/?cat=26\">The Bloggess<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think The Bloggess is an inspiration to women &#8230;and people who blog &#8230;and writer&#8217;s searching for expression EVERYWHERE.\u00a0 She&#8217;s wacky and funny with a wonderful talent with photos and interent tweaking.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s also insightful and sometimes soul-rippingly personal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}