{"id":20,"date":"2008-12-25T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-05-11T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T15:41:47","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
\n\"Christmas\"
\nMerry Christmas to you and your Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-christmas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqtyx-k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":0},"title":"Happy New Year","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"January 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Seasons change as time passes by. What's more? It's now 2009 years A.D.! People are joyful, partying all night long. May peace thrive the hearts of men and women as they set out on this new year! Peace to all and a Happy New Year to you and your Family!","rel":"","context":"In "miscellaneous"","block_context":{"text":"miscellaneous","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/category\/misc\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1734,"url":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/why-matchbox-and-how-it-connects-people-through-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":1},"title":"Why Matchbox, and how it connects people through music","author":"Jude Pereira","date":"January 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"There's no doubt that music defines us. It influences our moods, for example, making us happy by releasing a chemical named dopamine. It can affect what we wear, what we eat, and perhaps even who we enjoy being together with. It affects\u00a0our thought process too (it's well known that ambient\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "android"","block_context":{"text":"android","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/category\/code\/android\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Matchbox showing the top 10 artists","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7195-300x210.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}