{"id":9157,"date":"2014-07-11T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2014-07-12T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:13:38","slug":"christmas-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/christmas-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in July!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8216;O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by&#8230;&#8217; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem is not such a little town anymore, and certainly not sleepy or silent! It&#8217;s not a place lost in history or trapped in the timeless words of a Christmas carol. The place of Jesus&#8217; birth is a living place with a diverse population.<\/p>\n<p>Join us at <strong>3:33 pm on Sunday 20th July<\/strong> in the Prayer Garden, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/cafe\">The Dock Cafe<\/a>, for a time of prayer for the Christian community in Bethlehem and throughout the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/christmas-july\/christmas-in-july\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?fit=1280%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,485\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"christmas-in-july\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?fit=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?fit=940%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?resize=940%2C356\" alt=\"christmas-in-july\" width=\"940\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/christmas-in-july.jpg?resize=1024%2C388&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! 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The place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/christmas-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas in July!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Christmas in July","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-9157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas in July! - The DOCK - Life in the Titanic Quarter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/christmas-july\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas in July! - The DOCK - Life in the Titanic Quarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8216;O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! 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