{"id":3622,"date":"2011-12-24T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2011-12-25T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T15:35:11","slug":"last-yuletide-news-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"Last Yuletide News Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Re-purposed Santa figure, Pueblo, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 This is your brain. This is your brain on Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “How the Lawyers Stole Winter”\u00a0 \u2014 are we raising kids who can’t cope<\/a>? No, it’s not Yule-related, directly. Indirectly, yes, I would argue. You have to embrace all of the wheel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 No matter how “imagistic<\/a>” it may be, Iraqi Christians are afraid to celebrate Midnight Mass<\/a>. The current bunch of Islamists may succeed after 1,400 years of effort in chasing the last Arab Christians out of the Middle East. Expect them all in North America soon. (I have already met Egyptian Christians in a tiny town near me.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 I was watching a re-run show hosted by travel writer Burt Wolf <\/a>in which he reported that Christmas trees were promoted by 16th-century German Protestants<\/em> who considered images of the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and the saints to be idolatrous and who wanted to replace them with something else. That is counter-intuitive enough that it might be right, and it matches what was going on elsewhere, such as England in the time of the boy king Edward VI.<\/a> In that case, the Christmas tree does not qualify as a “Pagan survival,” at least not directly.<\/p>\n

\u2022 And don’t forget Krampus coming to town. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 This is your brain. This is your brain on Christmas. \u2022 “How the Lawyers Stole Winter”\u00a0 \u2014 are we raising kids who can’t cope? No, it’s not Yule-related, directly. Indirectly, yes, I would argue. You have to embrace all of the wheel. \u2022 No matter how “imagistic” it may be, Iraqi Christians are afraid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,24,15,43],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childhood","tag-christianity","tag-islam","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Wq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10128,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10128","url_meta":{"origin":3622,"position":0},"title":"A Soundtrack for the Yule Goat","author":"Chas S. 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