{"id":1015,"date":"2009-12-19T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2009\/12\/a-grace-thing.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:39","slug":"a-grace-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2009\/12\/a-grace-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"A Grace Thing"},"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>I overheard #3 talking with his best friend about Christmas and Santa Claus, it went something like this.<\/p>\n<p>Friend: \u201cI don\u2019t get that whole Santa and the chimney thing.  How does he come down it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#3: \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friend: \u201cI mean does he really some down it? \u2018Cause last year, me and my brother snuck out and turned the fire on in the fireplace to see what would happen.  That morning the fire was still on but there were presents under the tree.  How did he not get burned?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#3: \u201cOh, that\u2019s easy.  He\u2019s a saint, you know St Nicholas?  Saints are already dead.  You can\u2019t die twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friend: \u201cYou mean he\u2019s like a ghost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#3: \u201cNo, not a ghost, a saint.  Don\u2019t ask me how it works.  It\u2019s a Grace thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overheard #3 talking with his best friend about Christmas and Santa Claus, it went something like this. Friend: \u201cI don\u2019t get that whole Santa and the chimney thing. 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