{"id":3580,"date":"2015-12-16T06:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2015-12-16T06:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T06:05:38","slug":"kill-a-tree-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/16\/kill-a-tree-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill A Tree for Christ!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #003300;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We weren&#8217;t allowed to have Christmas Trees in prison.\u00a0 They had one briefly in the chapel but someone got a stick up their butt and it was removed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #003300;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first year I had it together enough (3-1\/2 years after release) to get one.\u00a0 Normally I go for a live tree and plant it afterwards but just haven&#8217;t been feeling up to a trudge into the woods so went with the dead variety this time.\u00a0 Sometimes the small things mean a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #003300;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And really, if you understand the symbolism it&#8217;s not so small.\u00a0 In Acts, Galatians, and Peter, Jesus is hanged on a tree, not a cross and likely that is the way it really went down as the Roman tradition of using a cross for crucification didn&#8217;t really take hold until about 100 years later. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1010.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1010-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1010\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1010-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1010-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1010-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We weren&#8217;t allowed to have Christmas Trees in prison.\u00a0 They had one briefly in the chapel but someone got a stick up their butt and it was removed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first year I had it together enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/16\/kill-a-tree-for-christ\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}