{"id":8665,"date":"2026-10-21T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:42:10","slug":"the-origin-of-the-advent-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=8665","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Advent Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer has-custom-css wp-custom-css-c2d38275\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Origin-Spread-of-Advent-Wreath.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:900px;\" data-width=\"900\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Origin-Spread-of-Advent-Wreath<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about Advent? Questions about the Advent wreath?\u00a0Here, from 2005, is Mary Jane Haemig&#8217;s definitive essay on its origins and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}