{"id":34972,"date":"2025-12-18T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34972"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:20:21","slug":"we-four-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34972","title":{"rendered":"We Four Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;We four kings of Orient are&#8230;&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot_20251219-080850.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Facebook post from Behind the Brick, a LEGO fan account. It&#039;s mostly an image of Joseph, the father of Jesus, and a LEGO Millennium Falcon, one of the really super duper deluxe expensive ones. The caption reads: Newly discovered scroll reveals fourth Wise Man who brought Baby Jesus a priceless LEGO Millennium Falcon.\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34973\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Little did the fourth magus know that what the Baby Jesus really wanted was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/product\/the-lord-of-the-rings-rivendell-10316\">LEGO Rivendell<\/a>.  His failure to read the proper signs in the stars is why he has been relegated to non-canonical, apocryphal writings for two thousand years that were only accepted by a sect declared heretical by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_of_Laodicea\">Council of Laodicea<\/a> in the fourth century CE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We four kings of Orient are&#8230;&#8221; Little did the fourth magus know that what the Baby Jesus really wanted was LEGO Rivendell. His failure to read the proper signs in the stars is why he has been relegated to non-canonical, apocryphal writings for two thousand years that were only accepted by a sect declared heretical<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34972\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We Four Kings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[4103,5359,4619,5360,4114,46],"class_list":["post-34972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legos","tag-lego","tag-millennium-falcon","tag-nativity","tag-rivendell","tag-star-wars","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}