Yes, we’re in that time of year when people scurry about, putting up holiday decorations, baking holiday treats, purchasing holiday gifts, writing holiday cards, attending holiday parties, and even trimming holiday trees. And all the while, we’re told by an impotently paranoid culture that we cannot utter the name of THE holiday that all our December actions are based on. Heaven forbid we should actually mention the holiday that everyone KNOWS is being celebrated.<\/p>\n
Beginning just prior to Halloween, Disneyland re-decorates their “Haunted Mansion”<\/a> attraction to combine aspects of both Halloween and that unmentionable day of celebration (which happens to be sometime near the Winter Solstice). Jack-O-Lanterns are mixed with images of Sandy Claws and the like. As one enters the attraction, it is interesting to note the canned narration inviting guests to “come inside and see what happens when two holidays collide!” Well, it’s obvious that one of the holidays is Halloween, but which holiday is it colliding with?<\/p>\n Kwanzaa?<\/p>\n Festivus?<\/p>\n Hanukkah?<\/p>\n Ramadan?<\/p>\n However you celebrate the holiday formerly known as [strong throat clear]<\/em>, take the time to read two sites, written by my friend Ilona, dedicated to the Advent of that colliding holiday (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, we’re in that time of year when people scurry about, putting up holiday decorations, baking holiday treats, purchasing holiday gifts, writing holiday cards, attending holiday parties, and even trimming holiday trees. And all the while, we’re told by an impotently paranoid culture that we cannot utter the name of THE holiday that all our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,19,59],"tags":[359,360,361,363,362,364],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-culture","category-humor","category-rusty","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-festivus","tag-hanukkah","tag-kwanzaa","tag-ramadan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t