{"id":1332,"date":"2004-12-16T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/save_our_celebratory_phrases\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T06:58:13","slug":"save_our_celebratory_phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/save_our_celebratory_phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Our Celebratory Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our niche causes, but in the grand scheme of things <a title=\"Make a Difference in America...Save Merry Christmas!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savemerrychristmas.org\/\">this<\/a> really does seem like a trivial matter.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m growing weary of people who try to portray Christians as a persecuted American minority because some people object to having prayers, or ten commandments, or religious-based phrases dominating every conceivable public forum.<br \/>\nI dare say that some of these people would make a greater mark for Christianity if they pursued causes of social justice rather than monitoring the holiday dialogue of sales clerks at the local department store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/save_our_celebratory_phrases\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Save Our Celebratory Phrases\"><p>We all have our niche causes, but in the grand scheme of things this really does seem like a trivial matter. I&#8217;m growing weary of people who try to portray Christians as a persecuted American minority because some people object to having prayers, or ten commandments, or religious-based phrases dominating every conceivable public forum. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}