{"id":26490,"date":"2011-06-24T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/nativity-of-saint-john-the-bap-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:57:58","slug":"nativity-of-saint-john-the-bap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/nativity-of-saint-john-the-bap-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity of Saint John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Birth%20of%20St%20John%20the%20Baptist%20AGentileschi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Birth of St John the Baptist AGentileschi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/06\/Birth of St John the Baptist AGentileschi-thumb-300x210-9441.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \">When the Prophet Zechariah was officiating as priest within the Temple,&nbsp;offering up the petitions of the people to the most loving Lord,&nbsp;he beheld an angel who cried out to him,&nbsp;&#8220;Your supplication and entreaty have been heard,&nbsp;Be of good cheer, O Elder, and do not disbelieve!&nbsp;For you shall have a child, the&nbsp;Forerunner&nbsp;of God,&nbsp;the greatest of those born of women,&nbsp;who in the power of Elijah will go before the Lord!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; \">Don&#8217;t forget to light a fire in honor of Saint John the Baptist. See <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2010\/06\/blessing-of-a-bonfire-on-the-v.html\">the Blessing here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Prophet Zechariah was officiating as priest within the Temple,&nbsp;offering up the petitions of the people to the most loving Lord,&nbsp;he beheld an angel who cried out to him,&nbsp;&#8220;Your supplication and entreaty have been heard,&nbsp;Be of good cheer, O Elder, and do not disbelieve!&nbsp;For you shall have a child, the&nbsp;Forerunner&nbsp;of God,&nbsp;the greatest of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/nativity-of-saint-john-the-bap-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nativity of Saint John the Baptist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710,1828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}