{"id":511,"date":"2007-12-07T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2007-12-07T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:52:04","slug":"smile-yet-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Smile, yet cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HWTFM and I took a short drive out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janschnursery.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jansch Nursery<\/a> this afternoon &#8212; with Dog &#8212; to pick out this year&#8217;s tree.&nbsp; We usually get one with a ball so we can plant it in the yard afterward, rather than wasting a perfectly good tree.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a little church along the way, the sign said, &quot;<strong>Behold a virgin will bare a child.<\/strong>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the image that flashed through my mind was the traditional acting-out of the nativity scene by young children in the church, with perhaps a 7 year-old Mary un-swaddling the baby doll that always gets to play Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HWTFM and I took a short drive out to Jansch Nursery this afternoon &#8212; with Dog &#8212; to pick out this year&#8217;s tree.&nbsp; We usually get one with a ball so we can plant it in the yard afterward, rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}