{"id":18284,"date":"2012-12-17T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18284"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:03:55","slug":"bullied-by-baby-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bullied-by-baby-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullied by Baby Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When something becomes a fad \u2013 and placing anything and everything in the category of <em>bullying<\/em> is a fad \u2013 then people normally regarded as sane are prone fall for the most extreme and ridiculous manifestations of the fad. Hence we have reached the point where carols about baby Jesus are a <i>form of bullying.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Be warned: I will subdue any hint of disagreement with a rousing chorus of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,<br \/>\nBye, bye, bully, lullay.<br \/>\nLullay, thou little tiny Child,<br \/>\nBye, bye, bully, lullay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/parents-say-christmas-carols-are-form-of-bullying.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of parents in Missoula, Mont. are upset over the religious nature of Christmas songs performed at a local elementary school \u2013 alleging the songs about the Baby Jesus is unconstitutional and a \u201cform of bullying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When something becomes a fad \u2013 and placing anything and everything in the category of bullying is a fad \u2013 then people normally regarded as sane are prone fall for the most extreme and ridiculous manifestations of the fad. Hence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bullied-by-baby-jesus\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2063,2084],"class_list":["post-18284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","tag-bullying","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284","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=18284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}