{"id":815,"date":"2024-12-25T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T10:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2024-12-25T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T10:38:44","slug":"its-chrissssssssstmaaaaaaaas-john-elledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/its-chrissssssssstmaaaaaaaas-john-elledge\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s Chrissssssssstmaaaaaaaas!\u201d &#8211; John Elledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c1640. The protestants who dominate Scotland\u2019s parliament pass a law making celebrating Christmas illegal; England follows five years later. The ban is short-lived south of the border \u2013 once Charles II is restored to the throne in 1660 it\u2019s party on, really \u2013 but Christmas remains verboten in Scotland rather longer, and does not officially become a public holiday until (this is mind blowing) 1958. This is why the Scots are so big on New Year\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonn.substack.com\/p\/its-chrissssssssstmaaaaaaaas\">https:\/\/jonn.substack.com\/p\/its-chrissssssssstmaaaaaaaas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c1640. The protestants who dominate Scotland\u2019s parliament pass a law making celebrating Christmas illegal; England follows five years later. The ban is short-lived south of the border \u2013 once Charles II is restored to the throne in 1660 it\u2019s party on, really \u2013 but Christmas remains verboten in Scotland rather longer, and does not officially&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}