{"id":6992,"date":"2021-12-27T23:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2021-12-27T23:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:50:23","slug":"feast-of-saint-stephen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6992","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>\u00a0Good King Wenceslas.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/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\u2019s Temple Mount shown below in an image I captured on a recent trip to Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Stephen&#8217;s Gate, Temple Mount, Jerusalem<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?attachment_id=6993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6993\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-RESIZED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-RESIZED.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SAINT-STEPHENS-GATE-RESIZED-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/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,\u00a0Good King Wenceslas.\u00a0 Stephen was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6992\">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":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992","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=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}