{"id":271,"date":"2010-12-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/12\/secret-santas-on-christmas-day\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:09:45","slug":"secret-santas-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/12\/secret-santas-on-christmas-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Secret Santas on Christmas Day"},"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: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_b7Eh98KJ_qI\/TRWCskb8ntI\/AAAAAAAABL0\/Z26Q6XAB5QY\/s1600\/desaturated-santa.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_b7Eh98KJ_qI\/TRWCskb8ntI\/AAAAAAAABL0\/Z26Q6XAB5QY\/s320\/desaturated-santa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"209\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was going to post Tim Minchin\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">White Wine in the Sun<\/a>\u201d for Christmas but I was a little abashed after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noforbiddenquestions.com\/2010\/12\/my-favorite-christmas-songs\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">No Forbidden Questions prediction<\/a> that the song would show up on every atheist blog today. \u00a0It is a lovely song about a secular holiday, so feel free to click the link above or watch the video on any other atheist blog.<\/p>\n<p>But, as a bonus, I\u2019ll link you to a video at the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/2010\/12\/24\/nyregion\/1248069482199\/miracle-on-22nd-street.html?smid=pl-share\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tells a heartwarming story of a couple that mysteriously recieved hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m off on the train to have serial Christmases with my boyfriend\u2019s <em>very<\/em>\u00a0extended Italian family. \u00a0Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4256452356987023523-1162128244247847077?l=www.unequally-yoked.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post Tim Minchin\u2019s \u201cWhite Wine in the Sun\u201d for Christmas but I was a little abashed after reading No Forbidden Questions prediction that the song would show up on every atheist blog today. \u00a0It is a lovely song about a secular holiday, so feel free to click the link above or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Secret Santas on Christmas Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I was going to post Tim Minchin&#039;s &quot;White Wine in the Sun&quot; 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