{"id":415,"date":"2007-12-05T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/05\/giving-christmas-shoes-the-boot"},"modified":"2007-12-05T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T02:38:00","slug":"giving-christmas-shoes-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/giving-christmas-shoes-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving &#8220;Christmas Shoes&#8221; the Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">Imagine I&#8217;m standing in line and some filthy urchin sings the following song to me:<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><br \/>Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">It&#8217;s Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there&#8217;s not much time<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">You see she&#8217;s been sick for quite a while<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">And I know these shoes would make her smile<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight<br \/>&#8211; &#8220;Christmas Shoes&#8221; by NewSong<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">Here&#8217;s how I would answer.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, son, but what is your problem?<\/p>\n<p>If your mother is dying tonight, why the Sam Hill aren&#8217;t you at her bedside savoring your last moments together instead of standing in line at JC Penney buying shoes? And if she&#8217;s bedridden, what does she need your stupid shoes for? And do you really think when she kicks the bucket, Jesus is going to look down on her corpse and say &#8220;Whoa! Nice shoes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a very sentimental fellow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine I'm standing in line and some filthy urchin sings the following song to me: <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"> Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please<\/span> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size<\/span> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time<\/span> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">You see she's been sick for quite a while<\/span> ... <a title=\"Giving &#8220;Christmas Shoes&#8221; the Boot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/giving-christmas-shoes-the-boot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Giving &#8220;Christmas Shoes&#8221; the Boot\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}