{"id":24148,"date":"2011-11-30T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/happy-holidays.html"},"modified":"2011-12-02T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:06:32","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/happy-holidays.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, 90% of the retail drones giving me a December salutation are doing so from a script.  So why should I care about whether they wish me &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; or &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; or &quot;Holistic Hanukkah&quot; or &quot;Yumpin&#39; Yule&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>And for that 10% who are sincere in their good wishes &#8230; why should I quibble over what specific benediction they give me? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2011\/11\/30\/a-christian-who-doesnt-care-about-the-phrase-happy-holidays\/?utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed'>A Christian Who Doesn\u2019t Care About the Phrase \u2018Happy Holidays\u2019 | Friendly Atheist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Christian Who Doesn&#39;t Care About the Phrase &#39;Happy Holidays&#39;. Posted on November 30, 2011 by Hemant Mehta. I was worried when I started reading this post by (Christian) Jennifer McGrail &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, 90% of the retail drones giving me a December salutation are doing so from a script. So why should I care about whether they wish me &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; or &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; or &quot;Holistic Hanukkah&quot; or &quot;Yumpin&#39; Yule&quot;? And for that 10% who are sincere in their good wishes &#8230; why should I quibble over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/happy-holidays.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Holidays&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,68,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24204,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/oh-bad-wicked-naughty-newt.html","url_meta":{"origin":24148,"position":0},"title":"Oh, bad, wicked, naughty Newt!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Dec-11 8:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How dare you declare war on Christmas by using the \"H\" word instead of the \"C\" word? 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Really, really cute. #ddtb","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24858,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/and-to-all-a-good-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":24148,"position":3},"title":"And to All a Good Day!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Dec-11 11:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Neko wishes everyone a Happy Boxing Day. #ddtbIn album December 26, 2011 (1 photo)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/resolved-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24148,"position":4},"title":"Resolved!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-12 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I miss Calvin & Hobbes ... #ddtbReshared post from +Jim TatsudaHAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24008,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/thankful-heroes-and-villains.html","url_meta":{"origin":24148,"position":5},"title":"Thankful heroes (and villains)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Nov-11 9:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love this series of videos. 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