{"id":23923,"date":"2018-12-17T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:09:26","slug":"12-questions-about-christmas-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23923","title":{"rendered":"12 questions about Christmas answered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did it come to fall on 25 December?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there was no holiday season before the birth of Jesus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s been &#8216;always Christmastime&#8217; ever since?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What in the name of Jesus are mince pies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So is it now more of a capitalist extravaganza than a Christmas festival?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who is Father Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about non-Christians &#8211; those of other faiths or no faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Didn&#8217;t they try to cancel Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, at least it&#8217;s all over by Christmas, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you pay for a maid-a-milking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the answers to all these questions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/dec\/17\/was-jesus-really-born-on-christmas-day-12-yuletide-questions-answered\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Christmas? How did it come to fall on 25 December? So there was no holiday season before the birth of Jesus? And it&#8217;s been &#8216;always Christmastime&#8217; ever since? What in the name of Jesus are mince pies? So is it now more of a capitalist extravaganza than a Christmas festival? Who is Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23928,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions\/23928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}