{"id":36980,"date":"2023-12-06T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=36980"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T12:48:24","slug":"st-nicholas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/st-nicholas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"St Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36981 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/408099037_6984514514928796_427385055994611684_n-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/408099037_6984514514928796_427385055994611684_n-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/408099037_6984514514928796_427385055994611684_n.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>Today is the feast of the defender of the faith and apostle of charity, the bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. Some of us forget too easily that Saint Nicholas is a significant model of Christian life: truth and love.<\/p>\n<p>The image of Nicholas standing on the back of a devil speaks volumes, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>The modern rendition of Nicholas is Santa Claus which too often misses the whole point of who ought to be in real life. Nicholas helps us to see clearly; Claus makes things cloudy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of the defender of the faith and apostle of charity, the bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. Some of us forget too easily that Saint Nicholas is a significant model of Christian life: truth and love. The image of Nicholas standing on the back of a devil speaks volumes, don&#8217;t you think? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/st-nicholas-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Nicholas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36980"}],"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=36980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36983,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36980\/revisions\/36983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}