{"id":355,"date":"2015-12-26T03:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T03:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-12-26T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T03:25:49","slug":"christmas-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">This has been a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>MERRY CHRISTMAS<\/strong><\/span>!\u00a0 For Dorothy had me, it has been what has become a &#8220;normal&#8221; Christmas with her baking and me doing things around the house; today was working in the garage.\u00a0 Mid afternoon we went to our Christmas Banquet at the Waffle House.\u00a0 No, we haven&#8217;t been abandoned by our f<a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Waffle-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Waffle-House.jpg\" alt=\"Waffle House\" width=\"74\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>amily.\u00a0 Christmas Eve we spent with our son-in-law, Troy&#8217;s, family and tomorrow we will be with our children and grandchildren at our son, Bob and daughter-in-law, Krissy&#8217;s home in South Metro Atlanta.\u00a0 Bill Jr. and his wife Cheryl will be there as will as some of our grandchildren, Trevor, Emily, and Jena.\u00a0 We saw Will and his family and Morgan\u00a0 last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Today follows a wonderful <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmastime<\/span> that I have mentioned in a previous post.\u00a0 Added to the festivities,\u00a0 this week I had the opportunity to sing with a group from the Jubal Chorus as the choir for Keith and Kristyn Getty&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JOY<\/span>&#8230;An Irish Christmas<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Getty-Concert-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Getty-Concert-15-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Concert 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Getty-Concert-15-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Getty-Concert-15-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Getty-Concert-15.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> With special guests, Ricky Skaggs and Buddy Greene, it was an amazing evening at the &#8220;<strong>Fabulous Fox<\/strong>&#8221; in downtown Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">As much as I have enjoyed 2015, I look forward, with great anticipation, to 2016.\u00a0 I celebrate the past and thoroughly enjoy remembering all the years and events that have brought me to this day, but i don&#8217;t live in the past.\u00a0 <em>There is always a new day, another opportunity, for me, a another new song.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I pray you have a wonderful New Year.\u00a0 As messed up as the world is this Christmas evening, God is still in charge, He&#8217;s not caught off guard.\u00a0 As my friend, David Ring, often says, &#8220;God never says, &#8216;Oops.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a MERRY CHRISTMAS!\u00a0 For Dorothy had me, it has been what has become a &#8220;normal&#8221; Christmas with her baking and me doing things around the house; today was working in the garage.\u00a0 Mid afternoon we went to our Christmas Banquet at the Waffle House.\u00a0 No, we haven&#8217;t been abandoned by our family.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcoenmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}