{"id":3726,"date":"2010-12-25T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T11:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2011-12-26T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T22:01:53","slug":"in-the-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3726","title":{"rendered":"In the Stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Creche0464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3727\" title=\"Creche0464\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Creche0464.jpg\" alt=\"Creche0464\" width=\"432\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Creche0464.jpg 800w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Creche0464-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a long time I wanted a Nativity scene, and several years ago I suddenly realized I might make one myself from stuffed wool felt. My delusional scheme was to create one figure each Advent until we would eventually have a vast elaborate setup resembling the creches of Italy and Provence and the angel tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Except in wool felt.<\/p>\n<p>However, once I had completed the Holy Family, a donkey, a shepherd, and a sheep, and my husband had built a stable from branches and a lovely fragment of bark (thanks, Leah!), the time available for handwork had pretty much evaporated, aside from necessities like sock-mending and the occasional Halloween costume. Perhaps one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wish you all a joyful, loving, and peaceful Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/CakeChrysanth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3729\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeChrysanth\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/CakeChrysanth.png\" alt=\"CakeChrysanth\" width=\"140\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Ann<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/CakeSprinkles1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5163\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeSprinkles\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/CakeSprinkles1.png\" alt=\"CakeSprinkles\" width=\"125\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Stephanie<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time I wanted a Nativity scene, and several years ago I suddenly realized I might make one myself from stuffed wool felt. My delusional scheme was to create one figure each Advent until we would eventually have a vast elaborate setup resembling the creches of Italy and Provence and the angel tree<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3726\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[62,23,87,4,42,18],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portrait","tag-catholic","tag-festival","tag-handcraft","tag-mythology","tag-saints","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}