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You know, all the Jesus and Santa stuff aside, I’m just plain grateful for a time of the year when I can hear Handel’s Messiah<\/i><\/a> over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, all the Jesus and Santa stuff aside, I’m just plain grateful for a time of the year when I can hear Handel’s Messiah over and over again….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1579,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/07\/exquisite.html","url_meta":{"origin":3311,"position":0},"title":"Exquisite","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Dec-01 11:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Handel's Messiah was wonderful, as I expected. 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