{"id":759,"date":"2010-12-11T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=759"},"modified":"2010-12-11T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T08:29:40","slug":"a-christmas-carol-by-christina-g-rossetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-christmas-carol-by-christina-g-rossetti\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Christina_Rossetti.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716 lazyload\" title=\"Christina_Rossetti\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Christina_Rossetti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"294\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/294;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Rossetti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Christmas Carol<br \/>\nby Christina G. Rossetti<\/p>\n<p>In the bleak mid-winter<br \/>\nFrosty wind made moan,<br \/>\nEarth stood hard as iron,<br \/>\nWater like a stone;<br \/>\nSnow had fallen, snow on snow,<br \/>\nSnow on snow,<br \/>\nIn the bleak mid-winter<br \/>\nLong ago.<\/p>\n<p>Our God, Heaven cannot hold him<br \/>\nNor earth sustain;<br \/>\nHeaven and earth shall flee away,<br \/>\nWhen he comes to reign.<br \/>\nIn the bleak mid-winter<br \/>\nA stable-place sufficed<br \/>\nThe Lord God Almighty,<br \/>\nJesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Angels and archangels<br \/>\nMay have gathered there;<br \/>\nCherubim and seraphim<br \/>\nThronged the air.<br \/>\nBut only His Mother,<br \/>\nIn her maiden bliss,<br \/>\nWorshipped her Beloved<br \/>\nWith a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>What can I give Him,<br \/>\nPoor as I am?<br \/>\nIf I were a shepherd<br \/>\nI would bring a lamb;<br \/>\nIf I were a wise man,<br \/>\nI would do my part,?<br \/>\nYet what I can I give Him,<br \/>\nGive my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold him Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away, When&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1700s","category-rossetti"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}