{"id":995,"date":"2020-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/good_news_of_great_joy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:27:32","slug":"good_news_of_great_joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/good_news_of_great_joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News of Great Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love thinking about the incredible joy that the angels must have had when they got to announce the birth of Jesus on the first Christmas. For thousands of years all of Heaven and Earth had been waiting for the appearance of God\u2019s Son.  Finally, the day had come and they got to be the first to announce the \u201cgood news of great joy that will be for all people\u201d (Luke 2:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love thinking about the incredible joy that the angels must have had when they got to announce the birth of Jesus on the first Christmas. For thousands of years all of Heaven and Earth had been waiting for the appearance of God\u2019s Son.  Finally, the day had come and they got to be the first to announce the \u201cgood news of great joy that will be for all people\u201d (Luke 2:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[273,272,28],"university":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-luke-210-14","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}