{"id":15011,"date":"2011-11-25T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T22:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2011-11-25T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T22:27:05","slug":"occupy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/occupy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is now <a href=\"http:\/\/occupychristmas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It exhorts us to pay attention to what is important: Christmas with \u201cNo credit cards. No big business. Just Christmas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So what is \u201cJust Christmas\u201d? The anti-festive malcontents don\u2019t propose to occupy Christmas with the birth of Jesus, joy to the world, the mystery of the Incarnation or anything so trite. The <em>real<\/em> meaning of Christmas, the logos of the layabouts is the damaging of corporate America:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Occupy Christmas is about turning the tables on Corporate American greed during the season when the 99% can cause the most economic damage and send the clearest message. Instead of spending your hard earned money with Corporate America this (or any) Christmas, why not make the conscious decision to fuel your own local economy? Why not refuse to use credit cards?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least I have to give the Occupy movement credit for being non-inclusive: they could have called it \u201cOccupy the Holiday Season\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is now live. It exhorts us to pay attention to what is important: Christmas with \u201cNo credit cards. No big business. Just Christmas\u201d. So what is \u201cJust Christmas\u201d? The anti-festive malcontents don\u2019t propose to occupy Christmas with the birth of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/occupy-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[2084,1162],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupy","tag-christmas","tag-occupy-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}