{"id":6612,"date":"2018-12-26T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2018-12-26T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:45:15","slug":"feast-of-saint-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6612","title":{"rendered":"FEAST OF SAINT STEPHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today is the 26th of\u00a0 December, or Boxing Day throughout most of the Anglosphere.\u00a0 It is also celebrated as the Feast of St. Stephen in many Christian jurisdictions and features prominently in my favourite Christmas carol,<em> Good King Wenceslas.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6615\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/STONING-OF-SAINT-STEPHEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"978\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/STONING-OF-SAINT-STEPHEN.jpg 978w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/STONING-OF-SAINT-STEPHEN-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/STONING-OF-SAINT-STEPHEN-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><strong><i>Stoning of Saint Stephen<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0by Giovanni Battista Lucini<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen was the first Christian martyr and was stoned to death in front of the gate subsequently named after him in Jerusalem&#8217;s Temple Mount shown below in an image I captured last July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6613\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6613\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4496\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE.jpg 4496w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4496px) 100vw, 4496px\" \/><\/a><strong>SAINT STEPHEN&#8217;S GATE, TEMPLE MOUNT, JERUSALEM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 26th of\u00a0 December, or Boxing Day throughout most of the Anglosphere.\u00a0 It is also celebrated as the Feast of St. Stephen in many Christian jurisdictions and features prominently in my favourite Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas.\u00a0 Stoning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}