{"id":294,"date":"2017-12-12T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:42:23","slug":"70th-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"70- Xmas Pt 2; Rush Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iframe%20style=border:%20none%20src=\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6033951\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/%20height=90%20width=100%%20scrolling=no%20%20allowfullscreen%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20oallowfullscreen%20msallowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6033951\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where will you find yourself in these weeks of preparation for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Planning a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem requires preparation, it did for the Madonna and Joseph.\u00a0 They did not get lost in the trip planning.<\/p>\n<p>Will we get lost in the festivities of the details before this Christmas Day?<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd part of a Christmas mini-series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=288\">To listen to the Part 1 of this Christmas mini-series<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/beauty-color-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of Joseph with the Madonna who's on a donkey\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/beauty-color-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/beauty-color-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/beauty-color.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Road Less Traveled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/pexels-photo-186613-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Interior of mall at Christmas\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/pexels-photo-186613-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/pexels-photo-186613-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/pexels-photo-186613.jpeg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something for everyone at Christmas time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.<\/p>\n<p>The book runs from Episode 1-49 in contiguous installments that run around 7 minutes in length each. Additional material not in the book starts from Podcast 50 and updates are published every Tuesday morning and read by me, Nikos Steves, the author.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=4\">To listen from the beginning of the book Constant Procession<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I value feedback through the comments section or Better &#8211; via email at <a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where will you find yourself in these weeks of preparation for Christmas. Planning a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem requires preparation, it did for the Madonna and Joseph.\u00a0 They did not get lost in the trip planning. Will we get lost in the festivities of the details before this Christmas Day? This is the 2nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;70- Xmas Pt 2; Rush Not!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}