{"id":2734,"date":"2009-12-24T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2009-12-24T01:21:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T06:21:30","slug":"on-a-non-religious-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"On a non-religious Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/fashion\/06desiree.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> ran a piece on the slant of the White House&#8217; Christmas decor. From the Times,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Washington is a city that likes its traditions, and Ms. Rogers has raised a few eyebrows by trying to bend them. When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers earlier this year, one participant said, she surprised them by suggesting the Obamas were planning a \u201cnon-religious Christmas\u201d \u2014 hardly a surprising idea for an administration making a special effort to reach out to other faiths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A &#8220;non-religious Christmas&#8221;? Wouldn&#8217;t that be like having a Red Sox celebration in the middle of New York City? Hmmm. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/christmas\" target=\"_blank\">FreeDictionary.com<\/a>, we have, for the word &#8220;Christmas&#8221;,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1.  A Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus.<br \/>\n2. December 25, the day on which this feast is celebrated.<br \/>\n3. Christmastide.<br \/>\n[Middle English Cristemas, from Old English Cristes m\u00e6sse, Christ&#8217;s festival : Christ; see Christ + m\u00e6sse, festival; see Mass.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christian? Birth of Jesus? Christ? Mass? Certainly seems to be a whole lotta religion going on there.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that Desiree Rogers wasn&#8217;t kidding as, per <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/2009\/12\/22\/transvestites-mao-and-obama-decorate-white-house-christmas-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart<\/a>, none other than Chairman Mao made it onto a White House <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Christmas<\/span> Holiday Tree (as an ornament). And, to top it off (the story, not the tree), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1949879,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama family will not be attending church<\/a> this Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Change&#8230; you can believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the New York Times ran a piece on the slant of the White House&#8217; Christmas decor. From the Times, But Washington is a city that likes its traditions, and Ms. Rogers has raised a few eyebrows by trying to bend them. When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,21,59,1],"tags":[360,203,396,80],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-culture","category-liberal","category-rusty","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-church","tag-non-religious","tag-obama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}