{"id":975,"date":"2025-12-19T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:42:17","slug":"a-christmas-present-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Present Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>A Christmas Present Remembered<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>For the past few years in this great house, I thought of our first real Christmas as a nation. It was the dark and freezing Christmas of 1776, when General Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware. They and Providence gave our nation its first Christmas gift \u2013 a victory that brought us closer to liberty, the condition in which God meant man to flourish.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>President Ronald Reagan<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>December 1984, Remarks at the National Christmas Tree Lighting.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_976\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-976\" class=\"wp-image-976\" src=\"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380-1024x668.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/reagan-1983-2000-d44f2821eb304bcc99e04a5cc615c380.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Christmas Tree lighting 1984<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Present Remembered &nbsp; \u201cFor the past few years in this great house, I thought of our first real Christmas as a nation. It was the dark and freezing Christmas of 1776, when General Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware. They and Providence gave our nation its first Christmas gift \u2013 a victory <a href='http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/?p=975' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-great-cause","category-seasons","category-winter","category-4-id","category-31-id","category-5-id","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aliendreams.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}