{"id":211,"date":"2005-12-14T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=211"},"modified":"2005-12-14T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:36:00","slug":"xmas-damnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/12\/14\/xmas-damnit\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Damnit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like Fanatical Christians to take the joy out of the season. Without getting into my own religious preferences, I just want to say that if I have to read one more comment, hear one more news story, come across one more holy-roller who tells me how I should wish seasons greetings this year I might just scream and celebrate it in July instead.<\/p>\n<p>When this whole idiotic &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; story came out a couple of weeks ago, I just sort of rolled my eyes and dismissed it from my mind. But apparently, dedicated Christians have glommed onto this nonsense issue in a big way and now everywhere I turn I have them dictating to me where I should and shouldn&#8217;t shop, how I should articulate my well wishes for my fellow man and dropping I&#8217;m-better-than-you comments on blogs I love to visit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pissing me off. And the thing that pisses me off the most is that the most vocal are the sheep who haven&#8217;t bothered to do their research. There&#8217;s no evil meaning in typing &#8220;Xmas&#8221; over &#8220;Christmas.&#8221; There&#8217;s no malicious, subversive intent when a shopkeeper says, &#8220;Happy holidays.&#8221; I don&#8217;t understand why this suddenly became an issue. Stores have been saying &#8220;holidays&#8221; for years. It&#8217;s a holiday season for crying out loud &#8211; Thanksgiving, XMAS, and the New Year. They&#8217;re just trying to cover their bases.<\/p>\n<p>So basically I just wanted to rant about this freaking idiotic &#8220;war&#8221; and say, &#8220;get over yourselves morons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like Fanatical Christians to take the joy out of the season. Without getting into my own religious preferences, I just want to say that if I have to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}