{"id":1270,"date":"2005-12-05T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/12\/05\/the-genial-flame-of-charity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:54","slug":"the-genial-flame-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/12\/05\/the-genial-flame-of-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genial Flame of Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cherish the idea of advent, though I&#8217;m not a Christian practitioner of it. Yet the celebration of light, and the coming of it, is universal. This is a photo of a candle from my advent wreath.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/70615270\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/34\/70615270_4b47281061.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"advent candle\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling &#8212; the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Washington Irving<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cherish the idea of advent, though I&#8217;m not a Christian practitioner of it. Yet the celebration of light, and the coming of it, is universal. This is a photo of a candle from my advent wreath. It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling &#8212; the season for kindling, not merely the fire of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12408,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/12408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}