{"id":234,"date":"2006-12-21T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/overbroad\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T13:45:09","slug":"overbroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Overbroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine  Kersten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/191\/story\/889678.html\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[atheist author Sam] Harris even has a decorated tree in his living room. Dawkins explains why. Christmas, he says, has long since ceased to be a religious festival in America. &#8220;Understanding full well that the phrase retains zero religious significance,&#8221; he adds, &#8220;I unhesitatingly wish everyone a Merry Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When an outspoken atheist such as Dawkins says &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; we may be reaching a consensus. American popular culture has appropriated Christmas, as it has Thanksgiving, and drained it of religious meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not in my house, Sam.<\/p>\n<p>But read the rest of Kersten&#8217;s piece anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Kersten notes: [atheist author Sam] Harris even has a decorated tree in his living room. Dawkins explains why. Christmas, he says, has long since ceased to be a religious festival in America. &#8220;Understanding full well that the phrase retains zero religious significance,&#8221; he adds, &#8220;I unhesitatingly wish everyone a Merry Christmas.&#8221; When an outspoken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}