{"id":2349,"date":"2008-03-23T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2008-03-23T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T15:19:06","slug":"happy-war-against-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Happy War Against Easter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, go read this <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=MmY3MzNiNzVkZjUzYjQ1MzdiZTFjMTI1YjQxZDhmZjY=\">foolishness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each passing scene on my tour confirmed the cultural obliteration of Easter \u2014 that most sacred of Christian feasts \u2014 in a society whose members still define themselves overwhelmingly as Christians. The \u201cwar against Christmas\u201d \u2014 the campaign to force everyone to say, \u201cHappy Holiday!\u201d and banish the cr\u00e8che from public places \u2014 is still ongoing and met with considerable resistance, \u00e0 la Mike Huckabee and his in-your-face December campaign ad reminding viewers that Dec. 25 celebrates the day Jesus was born. The war against Easter, by contrast, seems sadly over. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember: Peter Rabbit dyed eggs for your sins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, go read this foolishness: Each passing scene on my tour confirmed the cultural obliteration of Easter \u2014 that most sacred of Christian feasts \u2014 in a society whose members still define themselves overwhelmingly as Christians. The \u201cwar against Christmas\u201d \u2014 the campaign to force everyone to say, \u201cHappy Holiday!\u201d and banish the cr\u00e8che from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}