{"id":6401,"date":"2004-12-14T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/12\/14\/greetings\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:24:09","slug":"greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/12\/greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">One of the strange things about how society has evolved into a tolerant(intolerant) thin-skinned easy offended group is what happens during Advent leading up to Christmas. Now when I cheerily reply with a Merry Christmas, sometimes I feel more like a kid who has just said his first swear word in front of adults. That just wishing a Merry Christmas has become counter-cultural which greatly appeals to my fallen nature. I have yet to run into anybody that was offended by this exchange and usually it seemed to be meet with a sigh of relief by store employees that seemed to have been ordered to use Happy Holidays instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Here is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/004306.php\">I did last year<\/a> along the same theme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/seasonsgreetings.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Yes it is that time of year again to celebrate the seasons and remember the words in the bible like:<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored?<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">During this time we greet those unsung heroes that spice up our food daily and for our taste-buds to praise them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Remember the reason for the season &#8211; to make food taste better!<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">The three wise men we sing about while celebrating the seasons knew the importance of seasons and brought some famous infant both frankincense and myrrh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">So as your walking along and someone calls to you &quot;Seasons Greetings&quot;, with glee in your heart and a smile on your lips reply back &quot;And a howdy-do to your salt and pepper also!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the strange things about how society has evolved into a tolerant(intolerant) thin-skinned easy offended group is what happens during Advent leading up to Christmas. Now when I cheerily&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}