{"id":2647,"date":"2007-12-25T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/white-house-christmas-card-and-message-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T18:03:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T23:03:53","slug":"white-house-christmas-card-and-message-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/white-house-christmas-card-and-message-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Christmas Card and Message &#8211; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/archives\/2007\/images\/Christmas_White_House_2007_Bush.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 4px 4px 9px;\" border=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/archives\/2007\/White_House_Christmas_2007-12-21.php\">OrthodoxNet<\/a> | George W. Bush | Dec. 21, 2007<\/p>\n<p>During the Christmas season, our thoughts turn to the source of joy and hope born in a humble manger on a holy night more than 2,000 years ago. Each year, Christians everywhere celebrate this single life that changed the world and continues to change hearts today. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The simple and inspiring story of the birth of Jesus fills our souls with gratitude for the many blessings in our lives and promises that God&#8217;s purpose is justice and His plan is peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But the angel said to her, &#8216;Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High\u2026his kingdom will never end.'&#8221;  <\/em> Luke 1:30-33<\/p>\n<p>At this special time of year, we give thanks for Christ&#8217;s message of love and mercy, and we are reminded of our responsibility to serve.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/archives\/2007\/White_House_Christmas_2007-12-21.php\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OrthodoxNet | George W. Bush | Dec. 21, 2007 During the Christmas season, our thoughts turn to the source of joy and hope born in a humble manger on a holy night more than 2,000 years ago. Each year, Christians everywhere celebrate this single life that changed the world and continues to change hearts today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}