{"id":8675,"date":"2010-12-18T08:53:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2010-12-18T08:53:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T14:53:16","slug":"the-reason-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/the-reason-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this e-mail from my alma mater:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/marqedugreetings.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/marqedugreetings.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Happy Holidays, signed, the Catholic Church\"><br \/><i><font size=\"1\">Click for full size<\/font><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice first, as I did, that Marquette University, a <em>Catholic<\/em> institution, sends out greetings for the <em>holidays<\/em>, not for Christmas.  I guess fundraising from nonbelievers trumps celebrating the birth of Christ, the ultimate basis for the existence of Marquette University (but no longer the ongoing reason for its existence).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, you might note that Marquette has sold the naming rights to its college of arts and sciences.  I have to say I&#8217;m glad that doesn&#8217;t appear on my diploma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got this e-mail from my alma mater: Click for full size You&#8217;ll notice first, as I did, that Marquette University, a Catholic institution, sends out greetings for the holidays, not for Christmas. I guess fundraising from nonbelievers trumps celebrating the birth of Christ, the ultimate basis for the existence of Marquette University (but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","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=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}