{"id":15234,"date":"2011-12-23T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2011-12-23T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:27:05","slug":"have-yourself-a-bland-little-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/have-yourself-a-bland-little-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Have yourself a bland little Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Harper\u2019s Christmas message didn&#8217;t mention the miraculous appearance of God in history or Mary or Joseph or the shepherds or the wise men or the angels or the star\u2026 well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he sputtered on about jobs, growth, \u201cgathering\u201d while looking backwards and forwards, Canada\u2019s economy and the government. At least he wished us \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KWkWbC6BRig\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next year he should try this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NYexxEAl8Io\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Harper\u2019s Christmas message didn&#8217;t mention the miraculous appearance of God in history or Mary or Joseph or the shepherds or the wise men or the angels or the star\u2026 well, you get the idea. Instead, he sputtered on about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/have-yourself-a-bland-little-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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2084,1484],"class_list":["post-15234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas","tag-stephen-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234","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=15234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}