{"id":17428,"date":"2025-12-22T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:40:32","slug":"christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=17428","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I usually visit my family in the US for Christmas, and as such, rarely decorate at home. This year that changed, as I took some time building this little tree before traveling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout 2025, I&#8217;ve been reminded frequently how essential Christ is as the source of peace, strength, and love in my own life. And I hope you all have a peaceful holiday season, blessed by the Prince of Peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[17428]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"17427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb-315x420.jpg 315w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb-135x180.jpg 135w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-bb.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually visit my family in the US for Christmas, and as such, rarely decorate at home. This year that changed, as I took some time building this little tree\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=17428\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,818],"tags":[286,3876,1793,102,1916,53,3825,3877,2349,8,49,412,273,12],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isaac","category-special-themes","tag-build","tag-christ","tag-christmas","tag-creation","tag-decoration","tag-design","tag-evergreen","tag-gifts","tag-holiday","tag-lego","tag-moc","tag-model","tag-technique","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17430,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions\/17430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}