{"id":40066,"date":"2019-12-01T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40066"},"modified":"2019-12-01T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:01:50","slug":"hoping-we-can-declare-ceasefire-in-phony-war-against-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40066","title":{"rendered":"Hoping we can declare &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; in phony war against Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=waronChristmas%20%23happyholidays%20%23consevativemedia%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40067\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christmas-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christmas-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/christmas.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump vowed when he ran for president that he would ensure that business employees wish their customers a &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; as if he had the authority to issue such a mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he got elected, of course, and he has kept up the &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; mantra during his time in office. Never mind, naturally, that many millions of Americans don&#8217;t celebrate Christmas. Why? They are of different faiths, but that doesn&#8217;t faze the president even though he was elected to represent <em>all Americans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative media have made a lot over the years about the phony &#8220;war on Christmas.&#8221; They suggest that media liberals have made wishing everyone a Merry Christmas a form of insult, that they have guilted Americans into wishing folks the milquetoast &#8220;happy holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have never taken offense to the &#8220;happy holidays&#8221; greetings, even though I do celebrate Christmas \u2026 but that&#8217;s just me. Nor do I have any problem wishing people a Merry Christmas. I did so today to a young woman in an Allen, Texas, restaurant who served us a wonderful meal. She accepted my salutation with a broad smile.<\/p>\n<p>So, with all of that I want to declare my hope that we can declare a ceasefire in this idiotic war on Christmas nonsense. There is no such media war. Donald Trump can wish Merry Christmas all he wishes. That&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also fine with me if a business employee wishes me a &#8220;happy holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>not<\/em> a time for conflict, division and rancor. It&#8217;s a time for joy, peace and tranquility.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=waronChristmas%20%23happyholidays%20%23consevativemedia%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump vowed when he ran for president that he would ensure that business employees wish their customers a &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; as if he had the authority to issue such a mandate. Well, he got elected, of course, and he has kept up the &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; mantra during his time in office. Never mind, naturally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoping we can declare &#8216;ceasefire&#8217; in phony war against Christmas<\/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":[1129,1424,2058,5173],"class_list":["post-40066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-conservative-media","tag-donald-trump","tag-happy-holidays","tag-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066","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=40066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40068,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40066\/revisions\/40068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}