{"id":506,"date":"2021-01-20T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=506"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T17:52:56","slug":"the-christmas-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Perhaps it is time for another look at this maligned festival?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas bashing is a historical habit. The reason for the season is under attack as the root of Christmas is questioned once again \u2013 whether it be Christian or pagan. It is argued that Jesus\u2019 birthday wasn\u2019t celebrated in the Bible. I wonder, did someone forget to mention it to the angels, the shepherds, and the star-gazing guys from the East that eventually showed up, that they shouldn\u2019t be making a fuss about the birth of the Saviour? \u201cGod never told us to remember Jesus\u2019 birth, only His death\u201d, is another reason for ditching the season, and, \u201cJesus wasn\u2019t born in December anyway\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is time for another look at this maligned festival? Christmas bashing is a historical habit. The reason for the season is under attack [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}