{"id":263,"date":"2010-12-24T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-12-24T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:44:00","slug":"friday-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone gather<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s that time of year<br \/>\nFor drinking and dancing<br \/>\nSuch pagan holiday cheer<\/p>\n<p>Some might point out<br \/>\nTheir faith has the holiday now<br \/>\nTo which I must say<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t have a cow<\/p>\n<p>This is a time for<br \/>\nHappiness my friend<br \/>\nWho cares where it started<br \/>\nOr where it might end<\/p>\n<p>The Christians stole Christmas<br \/>\nFrom the pagans we&#8217;re told<br \/>\nBut I bet that the pagans<br \/>\nStole it from something so old<\/p>\n<p>The fact is the origins<br \/>\nAre well out of sight<br \/>\nSo to all Merry Christmas<br \/>\nAnd to all a good night!<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>One thing man has demonstrated a strong capability in is the ability to steal from himself.\u00a0 Our modern faiths can be traced back hundred or thousands of years.\u00a0 The true origins are lost in obscurity, so why fight about them.\u00a0 The Christians own Christmas now, the Jews have Hanukkah, etc.\u00a0 Anyway, that&#8217;s my Holiday Verse this year.\u00a0 See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone gather It&#8217;s that time of year For drinking and dancing Such pagan holiday cheer Some might point out Their faith has the holiday now To which I must say Please don&#8217;t have a cow This is a time for Happiness my friend Who cares where it started Or where it might end The Christians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}