{"id":1035,"date":"2013-12-17T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-04-07T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T23:25:37","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fox News is again awash with outrage over the “War on Christmas.”\u00a0 The latest installment has Megyn Kelly proclaiming that Santa Claus and Jesus are indisputably white.\u00a0 While I am hard pressed to have sympathy for anything broadcast on Fox, I must admit to a sadness that “Merry Christmas” has morphed into “Happy Holidays.”<\/p>\n

I’m Jewish and as a kid I loved Christmas.\u00a0 I believed in Santa with all my might and when told he was fictional, my little heart broke.\u00a0\u00a0 I was in a choir and year after year I\u00a0experienced great joy in singing those lovely carols about the silent night and three kings of orient.\u00a0 Christmas was a time of joy all around me.\u00a0 There was honest good will and magic was in the air.\u00a0 It wasn’t a solstice celebration or the big holiday at the end of the year (that coincided with Hannukah).\u00a0 It was Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christmas is \u00a0the holiday of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s\u00a0 character transformation\u00a0and the vindication of the goodness of James Stewart’s George Bailey.\u00a0 Of all the holidays in the calendar,\u00a0Christmas \u00a0is the only\u00a0one that celebrates man’s essential kindness, charity and warmth.\u00a0 It is the holiday which honors the birth of the Prince of Peace, and, indeed, \u00a0peace permeates our homes and spirits.\u00a0 So I am inclined to say “Merry Christmas” rather than “Happy Holidays.”\u00a0\u00a0( And while we are at it, how about Bill O’Reilly and\u00a0his comrades\u00a0shower those of us who secularize the holiday with a little “peace and good will toward men.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News is again awash with outrage over the “War on Christmas.”\u00a0 The latest installment has Megyn Kelly proclaiming that Santa Claus and Jesus are indisputably white.\u00a0 While I am hard pressed to have sympathy for anything broadcast on Fox, I must admit to a sadness that “Merry Christmas” has morphed into “Happy Holidays.” I’m Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[28,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}