{"id":18188,"date":"2012-12-16T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18188"},"modified":"2012-12-16T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T16:39:30","slug":"origins-of-ten-christmas-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/origins-of-ten-christmas-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins of ten Christmas traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the &#8220;traditional&#8221; Christmas things don&#8217;t have an <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2012\/12\/15\/10-remarkable-origins-of-common-christmas-traditions\/\" target=\"_blank\">obvious link to the season<\/a> (aside from long usage):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s the Christmas season again, and before we get sick of the eggnog, fruitcake, and Christmas music played <em>ad nauseum<\/em>, we get to enjoy it for a couple weeks. But have you ever wondered where some of our weird Christmas traditions come from? I mean, we tell our kids that a fat man is coming into our house at night; we bring in trees in to shed all over the carpet; and we kiss under parasitic plants \u2013 all in the holiday spirit. How the hell are these even related to Jesus, whose birthday we\u2019re supposed to be celebrating?<\/p>\n<p>Well, sit back, pull in some eggnog and gingerbread, and take a ride on the 10-entry, <em>Listverse<\/em> sleigh!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/igeldard\/statuses\/280308499941036032\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Geldard<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the &#8220;traditional&#8221; Christmas things don&#8217;t have an obvious link to the season (aside from long usage): It\u2019s the Christmas season again, and before we get sick of the eggnog, fruitcake, and Christmas music played ad nauseum, we get to enjoy it for a couple weeks. But have you ever wondered where some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[345,45],"class_list":["post-18188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-religion","tag-christmas","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Jm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18189,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}