{"id":13211,"date":"2023-12-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:06:00","slug":"the-people-walking-in-darkness-have-seen-a-great-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2023\/12\/25\/the-people-walking-in-darkness-have-seen-a-great-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The people walking in darkness have seen a\u00a0great\u00a0light&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"bgxmas\">\n<div class=\"postswbgimage\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>Mary, did you know<br \/>That your baby boy<br \/>Would some day walk on water?<br \/>Mary, did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Would save our sons and daughters?<br \/>Did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Has come to make you new?<br \/>This child that you&#8217;ve delivered,<br \/>Will soon deliver you.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, did you know<br \/>That your baby boy<br \/>Would give sight to a blind man?<br \/>Mary, did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Would calm a storm with his hand?<br \/>Did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Has walked where angels trod?<br \/>When you kiss your little baby,<br \/>You&#8217;ve kissed the face of God.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Mary, did you know&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>The blind will see,<br \/>The deaf will hear,<br \/>And the dead will live again.<br \/>The lame will leap,<br \/>The dumb will speak<br \/>The praises of the Lamb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mary, did you know<br \/>That your baby boy<br \/>Is Lord of all creation?<br \/>Mary, did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Would one day rule the nations?<br \/>Did you know that your baby boy<br \/>Is Heaven&#8217;s perfect Lamb?<br \/>This sleeping child you&#8217;re holding<br \/>Is the great<br \/>I AM!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">&#8220;Mary, Did You Know?&#8221;<br \/>Words by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklowry.com\/\">Mark Lowry<\/a>, music by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddygreene.com\/\">Buddy Greene<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 15 years, this has been the Gazette&#8217;s traditional Christmas greeting. For the past 2,000, it&#8217;s been mankind&#8217;s hope and assurance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[329,330],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-christmas","tag-jesus-christ","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/drone_foggysunrise1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13211\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}