{"id":1371,"date":"2016-12-18T05:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T05:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2016-12-18T05:56:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T05:56:06","slug":"the-candy-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"The Candy Cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMG_1870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1369\" src=\"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMG_1870-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_1870\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMG_1870-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMG_1870.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at the candy cane, what do you see?<\/p>\n<p>Stripes that are red like the blood shed for me.<\/p>\n<p>White is for my Savior who\u2019s sinless and pure!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJ\u201d is for Jesus,<br \/>\nMy Lord, that\u2019s for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Turn it around and a staff you will see, Jesus my shepherd was born for Me!<\/p>\n<p>A humble man wished to use his candy making art<\/p>\n<p>To make a Christmas gift for Christ that came straight from his heart.<\/p>\n<p>First he shaped the candy into a shepherd\u2019s staff, a<br \/>\n\u201cJ\u201d To stand for the name of Jesus, who was born on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>He used white stripes to symbolize Jesus\u2019 virgin birth,<br \/>\nAnd His sinlessness and purity during His time on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he colored the candy with stripes made out of red,<br \/>\nto represent the scourging and the blood that Jesus shed.<\/p>\n<p>He had created the Candy Cane, to remind us during this season<br \/>\nThat Christmas is a sweet gift of love-Jesus is the reason.<\/p>\n<p>May you find God\u2019s sweet love at the heart of your Christmas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How sweet are your words to my taste!<br \/>\nPsalm 119:103<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the candy cane, what do you see? Stripes that are red like the blood shed for me. White is for my Savior who\u2019s sinless and pure! \u201cJ\u201d is for Jesus, My Lord, that\u2019s for sure! Turn it around and a staff you will see, Jesus my shepherd was born for Me! A humble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}