{"id":323,"date":"2006-12-14T07:06:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T07:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-12-23T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:01:08","slug":"advent-reflection-for-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Advent reflection for today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For God to become a baby he had to<br \/>\nSqueeze himself into a small space<br \/>\nConfine himself into a fallible body<br \/>\nRestrict himself to humanity<br \/>\nReduce himself to limited movements<br \/>\nBecome weak and vulnerable<br \/>\nRely on humans to take care of him<br \/>\nFor Christ to become one of us<br \/>\nHe had to be born like us<br \/>\nThe light was  hidden within the womb<br \/>\nThe thirst quencher  received refreshment from the breast of Mary<br \/>\nThe bread of life had to learn how to eat<br \/>\nThe one who holds us, first had to be held<br \/>\nThe Lover was loved<br \/>\nThe way had to learn to walk<br \/>\nThe word had to learn to speak<br \/>\nThe teacher was taught<br \/>\nThe creator how to create<br \/>\nThis is our God\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For God to become a baby he had to Squeeze himself into a small space Confine himself into a fallible body Restrict himself to humanity Reduce himself to limited movements Become weak and vulnerable Rely on humans to take care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}