{"id":38588,"date":"2025-12-22T05:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38588"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:42:44","slug":"theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=38588","title":{"rendered":"Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Filing out of the family van, we saw snowflakes<br \/>\ncould float, dust-like, up from the monochrome<br \/>\nrug that God had unfurled before Maranatha<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Baptist Church. There, at eye level,<br \/>\nthey kept us for a second from seeing<br \/>\nwhat we\u2019d driven an hour to see,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">a life-sized nativity, its figures arranged<br \/>\nin semicircle, golden, exotic against<br \/>\nthe chapel whitescape. I watched<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mother Mary peer into the manger,<br \/>\nher smile aglow in the vesper light,<br \/>\nand caught myself wanting to worship<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">her just once without blasphemy, the way<br \/>\nJoseph was, staring not down at the baby<br \/>\nbut over, into her, with a kind of awe<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">you can\u2019t condemn. My parents looked so old<br \/>\nand small next to them. Whose life was this size?<br \/>\nUp close, the gold paint was scotched and chipping.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I could see arches and loops and whorls<br \/>\nin the wood grain beneath. It took a while to realize<br \/>\nthere was nothing in the trough but powder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filing out of the family van, we saw snowflakes could float, dust-like, up from the monochrome rug that God had unfurled before Maranatha Baptist Church. There, at eye level, they kept us for a second from seeing what we\u2019d driven an hour to see, a life-sized nativity, its figures arranged in semicircle, golden, exotic against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2515],"class_list":{"0":"post-38588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-theft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}