{"id":19383,"date":"2013-11-21T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19383"},"modified":"2013-11-21T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T02:44:18","slug":"holiday-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/holiday-persecution.html","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Persecution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/wpid-Photo-Nov-21-2013-941-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/wpid-Photo-Nov-21-2013-941-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I hope the above <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelheldevans.com\/blog\/holidays-persecuted\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">diagram by Rachel Held Evans<\/a> helps more people find clarity about this subject!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope the above diagram by Rachel Held Evans helps more people find clarity about this subject! \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,42],"tags":[1852,4388,4692,4695,8946,8947,9891,13542],"class_list":["post-19383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-humor","tag-christmas","tag-happy","tag-holiday","tag-holidays","tag-persecuted","tag-persecution","tag-rachel-held-evans","tag-war-on-christmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holiday Persecution?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I hope the above diagram by Rachel Held Evans helps more people find clarity about this subject! &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/holiday-persecution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holiday Persecution?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I hope the above diagram by Rachel Held Evans helps more people find clarity about this subject! &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/holiday-persecution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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