{"id":3194,"date":"2020-12-09T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2020-12-09T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:10:13","slug":"presents-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/presents-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The memory of Christmas presents past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I work on cards and presents for the holiday season, I think fondly of presents past. One of my very favorite pieces I ever made was for my mother. The text is the lyrics to &#8220;Here I Am, Lord,&#8221; one of her favorite hymns. The verses are ranged around the circle, surrounding the chorus in the center. It is hard to believe that I made this 24 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"848\" data-attachment-id=\"3195\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/presents-past\/1996-08-here-i-am-lord-best-tweak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"880,848\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak.jpg 880w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1996-08-Here-I-Am-Lord-best-tweak-768x740.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Gouache, ink, colored pencil, pastel on watercolor paper, 16 inches square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I work on cards and presents for the holiday season, I think fondly of presents past. One of my very favorite pieces I ever made was for my mother. The text is the lyrics to &#8220;Here I Am, Lord,&#8221; one of her favorite hymns. The verses are ranged around the circle, surrounding the chorus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/presents-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The memory of Christmas presents past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-Pw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}