{"id":1227,"date":"2004-12-27T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is Christmas?  Why do we celebrate it when its roots are Christian?  At heart, it\\&#8217;s a way of spreading joy to the world.  But the major question is why do we need a holiday for this very purpose?<\/p>\n<p>And to send text msgs to all cellphones.  To spit ims to people you rarely talk to (but you\\&#8217;re on good terms with).  A short msg of xmas joy.  These are quick exchanges of greetings, but no more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I toyed with the idea of amending my \\&#8221;burned bridges\\&#8221;.  A way to spread \\&#8221;Christmas\\&#8221; spirit.  Easy enough to plan, right?  But as I thought about it, as I thought of actually doing it&#8230;I don\\&#8217;t know if it\\&#8217;s quite a gift.  To rescind words that I always hold to be true.  Or perhaps to offer an apology is the best gift that anybody can receive.<\/p>\n<p>Still watching too many dvds. :)  Have been seeing a lot of people that I haven\\&#8217;t seen for months and years.  Today I saw someone I will see too often in Pittsburgh. *cough*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Christmas? Why do we celebrate it when its roots are Christian? At heart, it\\&#8217;s a way of spreading joy to the world. But the major question is why do we need a holiday for this very purpose? And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1227\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}