{"id":22,"date":"2005-12-24T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-02-29T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T05:24:04","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[Just a quick \"Merry Christmas\" to anyone who happens to come across this note...<br \/>\n\n\n<p>\n[brief rant on]<br \/>\n\n\n<p>\nWill all you Christmas-haters please stop persecuting the rest of us in our &#8220;land of the free&#8221;?  I do love the irony, however, of using &#8220;happy holidays&#8221; to substitute for the seasonally-proper &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;&#8230;looking at the origin of the word holiday, from dictionary.com:<br \/>\n\n\n<p>\n<font size=\"+1\">[Middle English<tt> holidai<\/tt>, <i>holy day<\/i>, from Old English<tt> hlig d\u00e6g<\/tt> :<tt> hlig<\/tt>, <i>holy<\/i>; see <b>holy<\/b> +<tt> d\u00e6g<\/tt>;, <i>day<\/i>; see <b>day<\/b>.]<\/font><br \/>\n\n\n<p>\nEnough said?  It always comes back to the religious!  I&#8217;ll bet that next year, &#8220;Seasons Greetings&#8221; will be mandated as it doesn&#8217;t make any reference to God, Christ, holiness or anything non-secular&#8230;.<br \/>\n[brief rant off]<br \/>\n\n\n<p>\nSo,\n\n\n<font size=\"+2\" color=\"red\">Merry<\/font> <font size=\"+2\" color=\"green\">Christmas<\/font>\n\n\nto ALL, even those who aren&#8217;t so merry!<br \/>\n]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[brief rant on] Will all you Christmas-haters please stop persecuting the rest of us in our &#8220;land of the free&#8221;? I do love the irony, however, of using &#8220;happy holidays&#8221; to substitute for the seasonally-proper &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;&#8230;looking at the origin of the word holiday, from dictionary.com: [Middle English holidai, holy day, from Old English hlig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}