{"id":29276,"date":"2015-12-22T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=29276"},"modified":"2015-12-22T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:41:41","slug":"five-columns-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/five-columns-for-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"Five columns for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29277\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-Magi_1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29277\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-Magi_1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Three Ravenna Magi\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wise Men<br>Detail from an AD 526 Byzantine mosaic in the Church of Sant\u2019 Apollinare Nuovo, in Ravenna, Italy<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<br>Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700090152\/Defending-the-faith-Christmas-celebrates-part-of-divine-plan.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cChristmas celebrates part of divine plan\u201d (2010)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705386854\/Christmas-in-the-Holy-Land-2-somber-yet-triumphant.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cChristmas in the Holy Land \u2014 somber but triumphant\u201d (2010)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700209032\/Pure-love-led-Christ-to-descend-the-courts-of-glory.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cPure love led Christ to descend the courts of glory\u201d (2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/765618229\/The-Savior-can-change-dark-to-light.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe Savior can change dark to light\u201d (2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865591818\/Pleased-as-man-with-men-to-dwell.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cPleased as man with men to dwell\u201d (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cChristmas celebrates part of divine plan\u201d (2010) \u00a0 \u201cChristmas in the Holy Land \u2014 somber but triumphant\u201d (2010) \u00a0 \u201cPure love led Christ to descend the courts of glory\u201d (2011) \u00a0 \u201cThe Savior can change dark to light\u201d (2012) \u00a0 \u201cPleased as man with men to dwell\u201d (2013) \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five columns for Christmas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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