{"id":24531,"date":"2011-12-13T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-jewish-christmas-tree-story.html"},"modified":"2011-12-16T05:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T12:53:46","slug":"the-jewish-christmas-tree-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-jewish-christmas-tree-story.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Christmas Tree Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a side note, it&#39;s worth confessing that I never realized that Neil Gaiman was (at least raised) Jewish. I am, as my wife will tell you, sometimes oddly oblivious about stuff. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fmigration_catalog%2Farticle5114961.ece%2FBINARY%2Foriginal%2Fneil_gaiman.jpeg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/neil-gaiman-hanukkah-with-bells-on-1203307.html'>Neil Gaiman: Hanukkah with bells on<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy, as hard as I lobbied, with my sisters, for a Christmas tree.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a side note, it&#39;s worth confessing that I never realized that Neil Gaiman was (at least raised) Jewish. I am, as my wife will tell you, sometimes oddly oblivious about stuff. #ddtb Embedded Link Neil Gaiman: Hanukkah with bells on I do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy, as hard as I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-jewish-christmas-tree-story.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Jewish Christmas Tree Story&#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":"","_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":[106,68,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/not-quite-george-lucas-star-wars-reissue-level-of-annoyance-but-still.html","url_meta":{"origin":24531,"position":0},"title":"Not quite George Lucas Star Wars Reissue level of annoyance, but still","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-11 2:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dagnabbit! 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Hmmm, maybe I should rephrase that ... #ddtb Embedded Link Neil Gaiman - As requested by too many people: making the last post rebloggable As requested by too many people: making the last post rebloggable birdartpoetry asked: Mister\u2026","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":24467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/tom-bombadil-not-such-a-merry-old-fellow.html","url_meta":{"origin":24531,"position":2},"title":"Tom Bombadil: Not such a merry old fellow?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Dec-11 11:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is lovely. In a horrific kind of way. (via +Neil Gaiman) #ddtb Embedded Link Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (This is another of my speculative pieces and nothing to do with Star Wars. This one is for an older trilogy.) 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