{"id":43208,"date":"2024-04-30T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=43208"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T11:22:44","slug":"star-of-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/04\/30\/star-of-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"Star of Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43209\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/04\/30\/star-of-bethlehem\/whiteflowers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhiteFlowers.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WhiteFlowers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhiteFlowers.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43209\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhiteFlowers.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhiteFlowers.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WhiteFlowers.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flowers blooming at the park down the street from our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers blooming at the park down the street from our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,104,2093],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-43208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-south-philly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-beU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47149,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/traffic-cone-snowman\/","url_meta":{"origin":43208,"position":0},"title":"Traffic Cone Snowman","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"February 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"This little urban snowman was found in the park down the street from our house. 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