{"id":11550,"date":"2015-11-10T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:34:59","slug":"phony-war-on-christmas-about-to-re-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11550","title":{"rendered":"Phony &#8216;war on Christmas&#8217; about to re-commence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/war-on-xmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11553\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/war-on-xmas-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"war on xmas\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 30, 2013, I posted a blog item about the bogus &#8220;war on Christmas&#8221; that the conservative media keep telling us is occurring.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll share it again here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2013\/11\/frenzied-shoppers-declare-war-on-christmas\/\">Shoppers declare war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The right-wing media no doubt are going to remind us yet again that secular society has declared war on the spiritual significance of the Christmas season and that Christians shouldn&#8217;t fall for what secularists are trying to foist on us.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks is the latest bogeyman. I keep reading something about those simple red coffee cups where one can order their &#8220;venti&#8221; peppermint mochas with a double shot of espresso and extra whipped cream. No mention of Christmas on the cups. They&#8217;re just red. I guess some folks are upset by it.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to maintain until the moment I check out of this world that the real warriors in this phony war are those who do battle on the retail floor with others in search of the cherished toys for their children or grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the instigators of this ridiculousness? The retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Blame <em>them<\/em>, will you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 30, 2013, I posted a blog item about the bogus &#8220;war on Christmas&#8221; that the conservative media keep telling us is occurring. I&#8217;ll share it again here: Shoppers declare war The right-wing media no doubt are going to remind us yet again that secular society has declared war on the spiritual significance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony &#8216;war on Christmas&#8217; about to re-commence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[1129,5591,5592,5173],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-religious-news","tag-conservative-media","tag-secular-society","tag-starbucks","tag-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11554,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}