{"id":514,"date":"2007-12-25T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boerenroem.nl\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T14:11:22","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas&#8230; the miraculous event of God coming to earth. I have heard the expression over and over again, but this morning it hit me afresh: the Creator of heaven and earth, &#8216;stooping down&#8217; to his own creation and becoming a child, dependent of people, leaving behind his God-being.<br \/>\nEnjoy Kees Kraayenoord&#8217;s beautiful answer: God, I come to you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k96kaNndurQ&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas&#8230; the miraculous event of God coming to earth. I have heard the expression over and over again, but this morning it hit me afresh: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"bravada-featured":false,"bravada-featured-lp":false,"bravada-featured-half":false,"bravada-featured-third":false,"bravada-lpbox-1":false,"bravada-lpbox-2":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Christmas&#8230; the miraculous event of God coming to earth. I have heard the expression over and over again, but this morning it hit me afresh: &hellip;","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/video\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Video<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Video<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst 18 jaar geleden","modified":"Bijgewerkt 18 jaar geleden"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst op 25 december 2007","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 25 december 2007"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Geplaatst op 25 december 2007 16:11","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 25 december 2007 16:11"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Qy-8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1274,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/cape-town-2010-thoughts-on-ephesians\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":0},"title":"Cape Town 2010: thoughts on Ephesians","author":"Mark","date":"12 oktober 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The bible book of Ephesians is the focus of the Cape Town 2010 devotionals. Here is my contribution to that conversation. I once heard the story of an American general (apparently the only one) that was made POW during World War II. He was imprisoned in a Japanese camp in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/lausanne-capetown-2010-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":359,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/25\/god-in-the-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":1},"title":"God in the City","author":"Mark","date":"25 september 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this (Dutch) videoclip by Crossroads Rotterdam about Matthijs Vlaardingerbroek's ministry in Den Haag. (In his extremely down-to-earth and close-to-people mentality he probably would not use the word 'ministry' himself, but I guess it's just the best way to describe it.) I think it is one of the best\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Agap\u00e8&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Agap\u00e8","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/agape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":169,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/15\/wealth-riches-and-money\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":2},"title":"Wealth, riches and money","author":"Mark","date":"15 september 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"During my long rides I am listening to a 3-CD session of Earl Pitts on finances. I got these through our Swiss colleagues, who have this ministry called History's Handful, focusing on the rich and wealthy of this earth. Earl Pitts is the author of a couple of books, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;algemeen&quot;","block_context":{"text":"algemeen","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/algemeen\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":189,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/02\/van-gogh-is-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":3},"title":"Van Gogh is dead","author":"Mark","date":"2 november 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Today Theo van Gogh was killed. A brutal attack, he was shot this morning while riding his bike through Amsterdam. Apparently an Islamic young man both shot and stabbed him, making sure he would not survive. I can't understand it, it is so far off my morals and values that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;algemeen&quot;","block_context":{"text":"algemeen","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/algemeen\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/16\/easter-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":4},"title":"Easter thought","author":"Mark","date":"16 april 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Made by Sarah Brown.This is what she writes:Lately I\u2019ve had a lot jumbled up in my head about Christianity. I\u2019ve been wondering why our lives, as Christians, contradict the way Jesus lived his life. Why don\u2019t we hang out with the prostitutes and tax collectors? Why is it ok for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;algemeen&quot;","block_context":{"text":"algemeen","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/algemeen\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1070,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/26\/freedom-for-prisoners\/","url_meta":{"origin":514,"position":5},"title":"Freedom for Prisoners!","author":"Mark","date":"26 april 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I wrote a blog called 'Good news to the poor' in which I referred to the verses from Luke 4\/Isaiah 61. This verse happens to be the motto for Athletes in Action's summer outreach to Africa. Good news for the poor, sight to the blind, freedom for prisoners.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/c\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.athletesinaction.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/AIA-Voorjaars-Event-2010.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}