But often we don\u2019t know the story, the reason, behind the effort, cost, and management of the decorations that make Christmas\u2014Christmas.<\/p>\n
I had a long chat with a lovely lady whom I introduced to you before. Through this chat, I learned a lot about her childhood in a foreign country and her coming to America. <\/p>\n
Her family came here when she was fourteen, but she recalls vividly what it was like to live in a home that was good and kind to her, but didn’t celebrate Christmas. <\/p>\n
And she loves Christmas.<\/p>\n
She told me about what life was like for her as a child, intriguing facts about it. But she also told me how it is far worse there now, after communism came to town.<\/p>\n
She told me how grateful she is to be here.<\/p>\n
Yes, she\u2019s a lovely lady, but she needs to express her love, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But often we don\u2019t know the story, the reason, behind the effort, cost, and management of the decorations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-94509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}