{"id":995,"date":"2014-12-06T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/?p=995"},"modified":"2014-12-05T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:56:55","slug":"happy-feast-of-st-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/995","title":{"rendered":"Happy Feast of St. Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-996\" src=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Nichols-Meme-Police-640x426-300x199.png\" alt=\"Santa-Nichols-Meme-Police-640x426\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Nichols-Meme-Police-640x426-300x199.png 300w, http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Nichols-Meme-Police-640x426.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas the 4th century bishop of Myra who is the basis of Santa Claus. The historical bishop is also well known for punching out the heretic Arius at the Council of Nicea. And I&#8217;ll bet Arius got coal in his stocking that year too. Enjoy the memes here about St. Nicholas and visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stnicholascenter.org\/pages\/home\/\">St. Nicholas Center<\/a> for more information about this saintly bishop and how Santa Claus came about.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-998\" src=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/philotheaonphire.blogspot.com_-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"philotheaonphire.blogspot.com_\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/philotheaonphire.blogspot.com_-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/philotheaonphire.blogspot.com_.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-997\" src=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jrforasteros.com-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"jrforasteros.com-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jrforasteros.com-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jrforasteros.com-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Feast of St. Nicholas the 4th century bishop of Myra who is the basis of Santa Claus. The historical bishop is also well known for punching out the heretic Arius at the Council of Nicea. And I&#8217;ll bet Arius got coal in his stocking that year too. Enjoy the memes here about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/995\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}