{"id":1350,"date":"2020-12-20T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T15:52:19","slug":"sunday-service-december-20-2020-advent-the-joy-and-love-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Service-December 20, 2020 &#8220;Advent-The Joy and Love of Jesus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wlacc4u\/live\"><strong>Advent-The Joy and Love of Jesus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is so hard to believe that Christmas is only five days away. It feels like only yesterday that we just celebrated Thanksgiving. But isn\u2019t everything out of sorts or in disarray in these past ten months. As we go from crisis to crisis or conflict to conflict, everything seems to blend or merge together and time is either at a standstill or at a blur. Yet, here we are\u2014the Sunday before Christmas. This is the day that West Los Angeles Christian Center is celebrating Christmas. Although the official day is this Friday, we will be celebrating Jesus birth today, as a congregation, so that we can spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with our loved ones\u2014either in-person or virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent-The Joy and Love of Jesus It is so hard to believe that Christmas is only five days away. It feels like only yesterday that we just celebrated Thanksgiving. But<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/?p=1350\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Service-December 20, 2020 &#8220;Advent-The Joy and Love of Jesus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastors-corner","category-sunday-service"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlacc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}