{"id":34441,"date":"2018-12-25T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2018-12-25T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T03:37:08","slug":"war-on-christmas-always-been-a-phony-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34441","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas: always been a phony issue"},"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\/2018\/11\/war-on-christmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33745\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/war-on-christmas-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/war-on-christmas-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/war-on-christmas-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/war-on-christmas.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus is on his way.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is about to arrive. We&#8217;ll have a good day. We&#8217;ll spend some time with our sons, our daughter-in-law, our granddaughter and her brother.<\/p>\n<p>Our time preceding this holy day has been relaxing and full of joy. I refuse to let the &#8220;hassles&#8221; supposedly associated with the holiday season get the better of me. There are no hassles as far as I&#8217;m concerned, so don&#8217;t tell me about them.<\/p>\n<p>I want to assure you as well that as I&#8217;ve done my shopping &#8212; whether for groceries or gifts during this season &#8212; I keep hearing &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; from vendors&#8217; employees as I complete my purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that cool? Sure it is! It&#8217;s also evidence as I see it of the phoniness of the so-called &#8220;war on Christmas&#8221; that conservative mainstream media tend to suggest is under way. Former Fox News blowhard Bill O&#8217;Reilly was the chief proponent of this phony war; he&#8217;s gone from Fox now, but others have mentioned it from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump campaigned for president vowing to insist that businesses with their customers &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; and not &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221; Fine, except that it&#8217;s never been an issue or a problem.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to declare tonight that the war on Christmas doesn&#8217;t exist. Let&#8217;s just declare victory against a non-existent enemy against this joyous holiday and go about our business.<\/p>\n<p>There. I just did.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everyone.<\/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>Santa Claus is on his way. Christmas is about to arrive. We&#8217;ll have a good day. We&#8217;ll spend some time with our sons, our daughter-in-law, our granddaughter and her brother. Our time preceding this holy day has been relaxing and full of joy. I refuse to let the &#8220;hassles&#8221; supposedly associated with the holiday season &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War on Christmas: always been a phony issue<\/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":[13],"tags":[640,1424,1788,2459,4112,5173],"class_list":["post-34441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-jesus-christ","tag-santa-claus","tag-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441","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=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34442,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/34442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}