{"id":4840,"date":"2012-12-24T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2012-12-24T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T16:52:36","slug":"nazi-neo-pagans-and-their-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"Nazi ‘Neo-Pagans’ and Their War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A headline from 75 years ago in the International Herald-Tribune<\/em>:\u00a0 ” ‘Neo-Pagans’ Target Carols<\/a>” with further discussion about the relations between National Socialism and Christianity here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A headline from 75 years ago in the International Herald-Tribune:\u00a0 ” ‘Neo-Pagans’ Target Carols” with further discussion about the relations between National Socialism and Christianity here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[24,93],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-germany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1g4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1736,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1736","url_meta":{"origin":4840,"position":0},"title":"“Agora”: Pagans vs. Christians or Atheists vs. Religious?","author":"Chas S. 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