{"id":28492,"date":"2019-11-24T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=28492"},"modified":"2019-11-24T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T16:02:46","slug":"christ-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/christ-child\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christ Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comeuntochrist.org\/light-the-world\/all-year\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28494\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leadership-eng-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Light the World\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leadership-eng-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leadership-eng-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leadership-eng-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/leadership-eng.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A new minimalist short film has been released depicting the birth of Christ in a more Biblical way. The Nativity story has been so romanticized in film, song and the written word for so long it is refreshing to see the story set back in a more original context.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a richly human look at what it must have been like.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/strong><\/a>, the 18-minute film pops with overlooked details that many miss or merely do not know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shepherds we not ignorant of Christ and were jubliant at his coming<\/li>\n<li>The Wise Men did not find the child until he was nearly two years old<\/li>\n<li>Mary and Joseph were young and closer in age to each other than many suppose<\/li>\n<li>The presence and threat of Herod&#8217;s forces were real and constant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The story of Christ&#8217;s birth is so well known the filmmakers did not have to waste a lot of dialogue (as if you could understand the language anyway). The film does not sport sub-titles and it does not need to.\u00a0 Focus on the faces and the reactions &#8211; especially in the eyes &#8211; of the unknown actors in this film. That&#8217;s the storytelling here and it fit beautifully with the point of the film:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXWoKi5x3lw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center>The film is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comeuntochrist.org\/light-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>#LighttheWorld<\/strong><\/a> effort encouraging efforts to give and serve during the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new minimalist short film has been released depicting the birth of Christ in a more Biblical way. The Nativity story has been so romanticized in film, song and the written word for so long it is refreshing to see the story set back in a more original context. The result is a richly human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":31,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2,15,129],"tags":[763,521,764],"class_list":["post-28492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-history","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-video","category-sacred-christmas","tag-lighttheworld","tag-jesus-christ","tag-nativity-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}