{"id":1690,"date":"2007-12-02T22:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2007-12-02T22:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T04:12:59","slug":"the-supposed-war-against-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"The Supposed War Against Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been telling people around here about my Christmas card list and how I have designations for who gets Christmas cards, who gets peace cards, and who gets either one.\u00c2? Some have raised concern about me being part of the War Against Christmas and I guess I should learn to express my opinion a little more clearly such as the following.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THERE. IS. NO. WAR. AGAINST. CHRISTMAS!!!\u00c2? HAPPY. HOLIDAYS. REFERS. TO. THE. FACT. THAT. NOT. EVERYONE. AND. THEIR. MOTHER. CELEBRATES. CHRISTMAS!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously, I don&#8217;t celebrate Hannukah so it would be a little inappropriate of my Jewish friends to send me Hannukah cards and ditto for my pagan friends sending me cards regarding Yule as I don&#8217;t celebrate that either.\u00c2? So&#8230; I don&#8217;t send Christmas cards to my friends who actively practice another faith because December 25th is just another day to them.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, the Christmas cards I *do* send out are religious ones.\u00c2? I celebrate Christmas and I&#8217;m into Jesus being &#8220;the reason for the season&#8221; and all that.\u00c2? I just choose to respect that not everyone celebrates the same things that I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been telling people around here about my Christmas card list and how I have designations for who gets Christmas cards, who gets peace cards, and who gets either one.\u00c2? Some have raised concern about me being part of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-rg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}