{"id":34,"date":"2005-12-25T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/34"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:38:00","slug":"reclaiming-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/34","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always avoided using the word Xmas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are taking the Christ out of Christmas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>people would say. Now I think, on the contrary,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The X stands for Christ and can mean nothing else.<\/li>\n<li>It is a reminder of the sacrifice God made when he sent his Son.<\/li>\n<li>It is a reminder of the destiny of the child that was born so innocent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So use the word well and remember what it stands for.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see myself ever using Crimble however. That is taking the &#8220;mass&#8221;, the celebration, out of Christmas&mdash;I wonder why there is only one &#8220;s&#8221; on the end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always avoided using the word Xmas: You are taking the Christ out of Christmas people would say. Now I think, on the contrary, The X stands for Christ and can mean nothing else. It is a reminder of the sacrifice God made when he sent his Son. It is a reminder of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}