{"id":1903,"date":"2006-12-18T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2006-12-18T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T00:42:00","slug":"moby-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/moby-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moby.com\/journal\/2006-12-18\/the_war_on_christmas.html\">Moby&#8217;s got a post<\/A> on Christmas and the &#8220;religious right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>jesus once got angry and drove the money-changers from the temple. why? because they were commercializing religion. so&#8230;what would upset jesus more, someone at wal-mart saying &#8216;happy holidays&#8217;, or billions of dollars being spent to commercialize jesus&#8217; birthday party?<br \/>\nthe religious right need to sit down and look at what they&#8217;re doing.<br \/>\nchristians in the 21st century should be humbly tending to the poor and needy, not opposing stem-cell research, banning harry potter books, getting upset about homosexuality, and defending christmas from the pagan infidels(well, if a few people from the aclu count as pagan infidels).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Agree? Disagree? On a semi-unrelated topic, when&#8217;s Moby going to make a Christmas album? I doubt from his comments he ever will &#8211; but I&#8217;d love to give a listen to him performing his favorite Christmas carols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moby&#8217;s got a post on Christmas and the &#8220;religious right.&#8221; jesus once got angry and drove the money-changers from the temple. why? because they were commercializing religion. so&#8230;what would upset jesus more, someone at wal-mart saying &#8216;happy holidays&#8217;, or billions of dollars being spent to commercialize jesus&#8217; birthday party? the religious right need to sit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/moby-and-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moby and Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-uH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}