{"id":7467,"date":"2010-12-24T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2010-12-24T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:16:37","slug":"the-war-on-the-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7467","title":{"rendered":"The War on the War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenoferox.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/happy-humbug.html\">Halfway There:  Happy Humbug!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Therefore I was less than impressed when Prager lamented the death of \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d as a holiday greeting. He declared, with great assurance, that pressure from anti-religious pressure groups had brought nonsectarian greetings like \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d into prominence in preference to speaking of our (not his) dear savior&#8217;s birth. Instead of taking Prager&#8217;s word for it, I decided to do a little checking. What does Google&#8217;s Ngram viewer show?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how authoritative Google&#8217;s database is, but if their sampling is close to random, &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; isn&#8217;t suffering the fate that some would have you think it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; is <em>in<\/em>clusive.<br \/>\n&#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; is <em>ex<\/em>clusive.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising to me the general association of who uses what, and what group is upset about their sense of entitlement being challenged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway There: Happy Humbug! Therefore I was less than impressed when Prager lamented the death of \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d as a holiday greeting. He declared, with great assurance, that pressure from anti-religious pressure groups had brought nonsectarian greetings like \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}