{"id":1154,"date":"2019-12-26T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:15:20","slug":"what-i-like-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/from-the-publisher\/what-i-like-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"What I like in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It would be easy to make a list of the things that annoy<\/strong>&nbsp;during this time of year. But the world has enough complaining, so I\u2019m looking beyond that. What I like in January:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A new calendar.<\/li><li>The intrigue of a year named for perfect vision.<\/li><li>The optimism of resolutions.<\/li><li>Lengthening days.<\/li><li>Electricity, hot water, and indoor plumbing.<\/li><li>Stocking feet by the fireplace.<\/li><li>Heated seats.<\/li><li>Homemade soup with family and friends.<\/li><li>A pile of books and a down blanket.<\/li><li>The right coat for the weather.<\/li><li>Fresh snow when the sky is blue.<\/li><li>Icicles afire in the morning sun.<\/li><li>The flash of a red cardinal.<\/li><li>The silence of soil and seeds in fallow time.<\/li><li>A holiday dedicated to peace, justice, and the righting of racial wrongs.<\/li><li>The gospel story of mysterious visitors from afar, evidence that God\u2019s gift reaches beyond what we expect.<\/li><li>The season of Epiphany, of light in the darkness and the manifestation of God to the whole world.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 things to enjoy at the start of a new year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,170,38],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-publisher","tag-from-the-publisher","tag-new-year","tag-wendy-mcfadden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}