{"id":129163,"date":"2015-12-17T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-texas-ag-edition.html"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:57:26","slug":"and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-texas-ag-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-texas-ag-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"And They&#039;ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love (Texas Ag Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has had it with people insulting him.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;If one more person says Happy Holidays to me I just might slap them. Either tell me Merry Christmas or just don&#39;t say anything.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes! This! <i>Exactly<\/i> the message that Christ Himself preached! Amirite?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays, Sid. Try not to let the variety of Reasons for the Season, or the idea that not everyone is in your religious tribe, or the concept of politeness and civility, get you down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/politics\/article\/Texas-Ag-Commish-Sid-Miller-threatens-a-slap-to-6702932.php'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ot2eKOuY0zThzBSAVFEU6jy80vlzBxnZsScYBEo339zQkeU8rQH4LcuevjZMyOefDKLnkXH9w0n9IpXdy4LEgVQapGtD42My6lZ_=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/politics\/article\/Texas-Ag-Commish-Sid-Miller-threatens-a-slap-to-6702932.php'>Texas Ag Commish Sid Miller yearns to slap holiday well-wishers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTexas Agriculture Commission Sid Miller can be a jolly fellow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HdMwpVG3x5t'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has had it with people insulting him. &quot;If one more person says Happy Holidays to me I just might slap them. Either tell me Merry Christmas or just don&#39;t say anything.&quot; Yes! This! Exactly the message that Christ Himself preached! Amirite? Happy Holidays, Sid. Try not to let the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/and-theyll-know-we-are-christians-by-our-love-texas-ag-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And They&#039;ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love (Texas Ag Edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,68,358,110,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-poor-citizenship","category-religious-zanies","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6836,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/21\/typeflake.html","url_meta":{"origin":129163,"position":0},"title":"Typeflake","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Dec-04 3:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Send a typeflake to someone for the Holiday Season. 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