{"id":129258,"date":"2015-12-25T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-etc-to-all.html"},"modified":"2015-12-25T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T20:09:59","slug":"merry-christmas-etc-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-etc-to-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas (etc.) to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; I don&#39;t mean <i>&quot;You must believe and\/or isn&#39;t it cool that our in-club believes in the deity of Jesus Christ and the literal truth of the Gospel descriptions (sparse as they are) about His Nativity&quot;<\/i> &#8212; though, if you swing that way, then I certainly hope the spiritual and theological implications of that birth and the tales around it are of worthwhile reflection to you.<\/p>\n<p>No, I mean <i>&quot;I hope you are having a happy time, that any family get-togethers are joyful, that any gifts you receive are thoughtful, and that the gifts you give are well-received in turn. I hope this day, and the days around it, bring you peace and excitement and refreshment and both closure for the year past and invigoration for the year to come.&quot;<\/i> Oh, and stuff about good food, good drink, good swag, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>And if you celebrate something different this time of year, I hope your celebration, secular or religious, is equally spiffy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6232303074633741057\/6232303086433665122'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-q319uNnB-yk\/Vn2Wow9zAGI\/AAAAAAADfQw\/3yuffJlz1u0\/Addison%2B-%2BChristmas%2B-%2Bwist_info%2Bquote.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GtrX5tHrGgE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; I don&#39;t mean &quot;You must believe and\/or isn&#39;t it cool that our in-club believes in the deity of Jesus Christ and the literal truth of the Gospel descriptions (sparse as they are) about His Nativity&quot; &#8212; though, if you swing that way, then I certainly hope the spiritual and theological implications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-etc-to-all.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Christmas (etc.) to all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129259,"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":[106,68,27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-religion","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Addison+-+Christmas+-+wist_info+quote.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24847,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/25\/merry-christmas.html","url_meta":{"origin":129258,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Dec-11 2:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas is, to my mind, about being together with loved ones, sharing expressions of esteem and affection (often by way of gifts), enjoying good food and drink, and drawing closer in ways that we seem to somehow forget to do the other 364 days of the year. 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