{"id":355,"date":"2007-12-16T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2007-12-16T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T05:38:07","slug":"an-early-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/16\/an-early-christmas-gift\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"An Early Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We woke this morning to a gorgeous coating of hoarfrost on everything outside. The drive to church was really spectacular, as was the view of the city from the north-facing windows at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.central-baptist.org\/\">Central.<\/a> There was a heavy fog in the air which left a thick coating of light frost &mdash; almost snow &mdash; all over everything, even the cars parked outside. The frost stuck around until a little after noon when the sun came out &#038; started to warm things up. As the frost let loose from the trees, it was like a light snowfall, but with gorgeous blue skies above!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=hoarfrost&#038;s=rec\">Photos of hoarfrost<\/a> can help someone who&#8217;s never seen it appreciate it a little, but the pictures don&#8217;t really do justice to it; it&#8217;s got to be experienced in person. Living in the upper-midwest can have its challenges, especially between November and March, but sights like we had this morning make the challenging times easier to take. Just seeing God&#8217;s creative touch like this is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_1.jpg' title='hoarfrost_1.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_1_lr.jpg' alt='hoarfrost_1_lr.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_2.jpg' title='hoarfrost_2.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_2_lr.jpg' alt='hoarfrost_2_lr.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_3.jpg' title='hoarfrost_3.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_3_lr.jpg' alt='hoarfrost_3_lr.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_4.jpg' title='hoarfrost_4.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hoarfrost_4_lr.jpg' alt='hoarfrost_4_lr.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke this morning to a gorgeous coating of hoarfrost on everything outside. The drive to church was really spectacular, as was the view of the city from the north-facing windows at Central. There was a heavy fog in the air which left a thick coating of light frost &mdash; almost snow &mdash; all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-stuff","category-the-world"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}