{"id":3835,"date":"2015-02-08T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2015-02-08T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T20:01:34","slug":"merry-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Merry Whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas the month before Christmas<br \/>\nWhen all through our land,<br \/>\nNot a Christian was praying<br \/>\nNor taking a stand.<\/p>\n<p>Why the Politically Correct Police had taken away,<br \/>\nThe reason for Christmas &#8211; no one could say.<br \/>\nThe children were told by their schools not to sing,<br \/>\nAbout Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.<\/p>\n<p>It might hurt people&#8217;s feelings, the teachers would say<br \/>\nDecember 25th is just a &#8220;Holiday &#8220;.<br \/>\nYet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit<br \/>\nPushing folks down to the floor just to get it!<\/p>\n<p>CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod<br \/>\nSomething was changing, something quite odd!<br \/>\nRetailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa<br \/>\nIn hopes to sell books by Franken &amp; Fonda.<\/p>\n<p>As Targets were hanging their trees upside down<br \/>\nAt Lowe&#8217;s the word Christmas &#8211; was no where to be found.<br \/>\nAt K-Mart and Staples and Penny&#8217;s and Sears<br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t hear the word Christmas; it won&#8217;t touch your ears.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty<br \/>\nAre words that were used to intimidate me.<br \/>\nNow Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen<br \/>\nOn Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter<br \/>\nTo eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.<br \/>\nAnd we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith<br \/>\nForbidden to speak of salvation and grace.<\/p>\n<p>The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded<br \/>\nThe reason for the season, stopped before it started.<br \/>\nSo as you celebrate &#8220;Winter Break&#8221; under your &#8220;Dream Tree&#8221;<br \/>\nSipping your Starbucks, listen to me.<\/p>\n<p>Choose your words carefully, choose what you say<br \/>\nShout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas the month before Christmas When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying Nor taking a stand. Why the Politically Correct Police had taken away, The reason for Christmas &#8211; no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing, About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,64],"tags":[1178],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season","category-twas","tag-politically-correct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}