{"id":33847,"date":"2018-11-27T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33847"},"modified":"2018-11-27T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:21:18","slug":"is-potus-going-to-spoil-the-holiday-spirit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33847","title":{"rendered":"Is POTUS going to spoil the holiday spirit again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m sure you remember when Donald John Trump was campaigning for president and he said he would require business employees to wish their customers a “Merry Christmas.”<\/p>\n

As if he had the authority to do such a thing.<\/p>\n

If he’s elected president, the Republican nominee said, he would bring Christmas back into play. No more “Happy Holidays” for that guy. Swell.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s as if Christmas ever disappeared. Which it didn’t. It never has. It never will in a society such as ours where we place so much emphasis on Christmas, whether in the secular, gift-buying, retail frenzy sense or in the spiritual, Christian-based celebration.<\/p>\n

What is likely to annoy me in the extreme would be to hear the president make this Merry Christmas brouhaha — a figment of POTUS’s imagination — part of the myriad holiday events in which he will take part.<\/p>\n

That would ruin the event. Tree lighting ceremonies well could become platforms for the president to make idiotic declarations about how he is bringing “Merry Christmas” back from the dead.<\/p>\n

I am a baptized Christian, a believer in the reason we celebrate Christmas in the first place. However, I never — ever!<\/em> — have taken offense when someone wishes me a “Happy Holidays.” That individual is likely a stranger. He or she doesn’t know a thing about me. He or she might not want to offend me by wishing me a greeting aimed at those who worship a certain way. For that matter, that person might be a flaming atheist who cannot bring herself or himself to mentioning Christmas in any fashion. I would have no idea.<\/p>\n

I am OK with that. Honest. It doesn’t matter one bit to me.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I find all this Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays kerfuffle to be a made-up, phony, bogus, dubious controversy.<\/p>\n

We likely will be able to rest assured that the president of the United States is intent on ensuring that it stays at the top of people’s minds.<\/p>\n\n

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I’m sure you remember when Donald John Trump was campaigning for president and he said he would require business employees to wish their customers a “Merry Christmas.” As if he had the authority to do such a thing. If he’s elected president, the Republican nominee said, he would bring Christmas back into play. No more … Continue reading Is POTUS going to spoil the holiday spirit again?<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,2058,3004,5173],"class_list":["post-33847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-happy-holidays","tag-merry-christmas","tag-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847","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=33847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33849,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847\/revisions\/33849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}