{"id":1186,"date":"2012-12-30T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2013-01-03T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:48:07","slug":"a-special-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/a-special-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1187 alignleft\" title=\"Malia Stallard\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Malia-Stallard-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"166\" \/>Just a few days before Christmas Day, my nephew Stephen Stallard and his wife Sonya had their first child.\u00a0 They named her\u00a0Malia.\u00a0 This makes me a Great Uncle for the first time!\u00a0 What a special Christmas gift!!!\u00a0 Thank you Stephen and Sonya!\u00a0 Of course, chief thanksgiving goes to the Lord, the giver of life.\u00a0 I had a chance to hold her in the hospital.\u00a0 I have provided a picture of her which I believe my niece Rebekah took.\u00a0 Nothing as precious as a little one.\u00a0 May God guide her every step.\u00a0 Our family has already begun to pray for her, not just her health as she begins life, but her spiritual development as well.\u00a0 May she come to know the Lord at an early age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days before Christmas Day, my nephew Stephen Stallard and his wife Sonya had their first child.\u00a0 They named her\u00a0Malia.\u00a0 This makes me a Great Uncle for the first time!\u00a0 What a special Christmas gift!!!\u00a0 Thank you Stephen and Sonya!\u00a0 Of course, chief thanksgiving goes to the Lord, the giver of life.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}