{"id":1216,"date":"2012-12-30T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2014-01-24T18:58:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:58:52","slug":"tribal-update-siar-of-papua-new-guinea-celebrate-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/2012\/12\/30\/tribal-update-siar-of-papua-new-guinea-celebrate-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribal Update: Siar of Papua New Guinea  Celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/siar-woman-and-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1217\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/siar-woman-and-child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a>For the first time last year, several Siar believers of New Guinea realized the significance of our Lord\u2019s birthday so they had a reason to celebrate His birth! They praised God and worshiped Him because He is now their Savior. Several believers decided to celebrate the occasion with a special meal, followed by a time of testimony. They shared about Christ and what He came to do for them. After dinner several Siar believers got together and wrote a worship song. Then, as part of their celebration, they sang praises to God. That sounds like a great way to celebrate Christmas, doesn\u2019t it?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time last year, several Siar believers of New Guinea realized the significance of our Lord\u2019s birthday so they had a reason to celebrate His birth! They praised God and worshiped Him because He is now their Savior. Several believers decided to celebrate the occasion with a special meal, followed by a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tribal-updates","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}