{"id":806,"date":"2004-12-13T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=806"},"modified":"2004-12-13T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T20:13:37","slug":"destroying-your-christmas-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/12\/13\/destroying-your-christmas-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Your Christmas Part One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003084\"><\/a>Paul deParrie is standing in front of the mall waving a giant poster of an aborted fetus.  I know this because I overhear someone a block or two away saying &#8220;And there&#8217;s this guy standing in front of the mall with a big photograph of an aborted fetus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I see the poster.  Two cop cars are sitting across the street.  There is some disgruntlement from people walking into the mall.  The fat guy with the beret is yelling &#8220;It&#8217;s True!  It&#8217;s True!  It&#8217;s the Truth!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The poster is headlighted &#8220;Merry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/07289c.htm\">Herod<\/a>&#8216;s Day&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I consider walking up and saying to the man, &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing how emotional people get by an obscure biblical reference that mocks Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t, because I really don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul deParrie is standing in front of the mall waving a giant poster of an aborted fetus. I know this because I overhear someone a block or two away saying &#8220;And there&#8217;s this guy standing in front of the mall with a big photograph of an aborted fetus.&#8221; I see the poster. Two cop cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}