{"id":24071,"date":"2018-12-31T06:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24071"},"modified":"2018-12-31T06:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:26:02","slug":"questions-for-the-late-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/31\/questions-for-the-late-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for the Late Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that people who avoid saying &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and say &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; instead, explaining that they want to include <em>all<\/em> seasonal holidays continue saying &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; after Hanukkah ends, but stop saying &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; after Christmas, even though Kwanzaa starts after Christmas and New Years&#8217; Eve\/Day and Epiphany are yet to come?<\/p>\n<p>How secular, really, is it to say &#8220;Happy Holy Days,&#8221; anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Also, what is the adjective to apply to celebrations of the Epiphany?  &#8220;Happy Epiphany&#8221;?  &#8220;Merry Epiphany&#8221;?  If we as a people have not yet set one, I should like to wish everyone a &#8220;Personal Epiphany.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed that people who avoid saying &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and say &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; instead, explaining that they want to include all seasonal holidays continue saying &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; after Hanukkah ends, but stop saying &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; after Christmas, even though Kwanzaa starts after Christmas and New Years&#8217; Eve\/Day and Epiphany are yet to come? How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24072,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24071\/revisions\/24072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}