{"id":833,"date":"2007-12-23T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/23\/war-on-christmas-updates\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T10:52:16","slug":"war-on-christmas-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/war-on-christmas-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatches:  More War on Christmas IdiocyRegarding Pat Boone &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What fucking universe do these people live in? I&#8217;d bet a month&#8217;s pay that not once in Pat&#8217;s entire life has even a single person ever objected to him saying &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/12\/we_have_a_problem.php\">Pharyngula: We have a Problem &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The archbishop of Wales thinks one of the greatest problems facing the world is &#8220;atheist fundamentalism&#8221;&#8230;.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and we have presidential candidates pretending to talk to god, and getting standing ovations for it&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2007\/12\/deirdre_imus_gives_everyone_some_stupid.php\">Respectful Insolence: Deirdre Imus gives everyone some stupid for Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that it irritates me that Don Imus is back on the air. It&#8217;s not that I give a rodent&#8217;s posterior that he made an offensive comment about the Rutgers women&#8217;s basketball team that lead to his being fired from his previous gig. It&#8217;s actually more because he somehow managed to displace the radio show that I usually listened to on my way to work in the morning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatches: More War on Christmas IdiocyRegarding Pat Boone &#8230; What fucking universe do these people live in? I&#8217;d bet a month&#8217;s pay that not once in Pat&#8217;s entire life has even a single person ever objected to him saying &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; to them. Pharyngula: We have a Problem &#8230; The archbishop of Wales thinks one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/war-on-christmas-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War on Christmas Updates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[185],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-dr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}