{"id":528,"date":"2004-12-20T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/santa-and-jesus-are-side-by-side\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:27:47","slug":"santa-and-jesus-are-side-by-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/santa-and-jesus-are-side-by-side\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Santa and Jesus are side-by-side&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Daily Aneurysm at jabartlett.com\" href=\"http:\/\/jabartlett.blogspot.com\/\">The Daily Aneurysm at jabartlett.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I am a liberal (and thus, as we&#8217;ve been told all month, an enemy of Christmas) and not religious (which makes me an enemy of America), I celebrate Christmas without cognitive dissonance and no feeling of hypocrisy. Christmas was long ago transformed from a religious holiday into an event so thoroughly secular that the wingnuts&#8217; efforts to force it back to its religious roots, annoying though they are, represent closing the barn door long after the horse is gone. Santa and Jesus are side-by-side elbowing for space under trees from coast to coast, and I daresay in most households, they co-exist peacefully, making no demands on one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Aneurysm at jabartlett.com Even though I am a liberal (and thus, as we&#8217;ve been told all month, an enemy of Christmas) and not religious (which makes me an enemy of America), I celebrate Christmas without cognitive dissonance and no feeling of hypocrisy. Christmas was long ago transformed from a religious holiday into an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/santa-and-jesus-are-side-by-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Santa and Jesus are side-by-side&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}