{"id":1765,"date":"2006-12-22T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/22\/what-is-christmas-all-about\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T14:43:00","slug":"what-is-christmas-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/22\/what-is-christmas-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Christmas all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">There are worlds of money wasted, at this time of year, in getting things that nobody wants, and nobody cares for after they are got,<\/span>&#8221; one observer noted recently.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not so recently.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote those words in 1850.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DKk9rv2hUfA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DKk9rv2hUfA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nVENmQqQyx4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThere are worlds of money wasted, at this time of year, in getting things that nobody wants, and nobody cares for after they are got,&#8221; one observer noted recently. Well, not so recently. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote those words in 1850. Watch the whole show here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/22\/what-is-christmas-all-about\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}