{"id":37,"date":"2005-12-04T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-12-04T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T16:12:40","slug":"the-solstice-is-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/the-solstice-is-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solstice Is the Reason&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten awfully tired of the annual whining by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/ReligiousReich.html\">Religious Reich<\/a> about &#8220;the war against Christmas.&#8221; As usual, right-wing religious lunatics are trying to raise money by whipping up anger over their continuing loss of (unconstitutional) power and influence. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How dare other religions have holidays at this time of year! How dare they tell us we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shove our beliefs down everybody else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s throats! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the majority!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to finally do something I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking about for years. Having heard about a secular humanist banner appearing at a town Christmas display a couple of decades ago, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finally designed one of my own with the same theme and slogan: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Solstice is the reason for the season!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to have a sign or banner made for my front yard and use this for Yule cards this year. If there is interest, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll put it at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/ibonewits\">CafePress site<\/a> in various formats as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/graphics\/Solstice-Sm-96dpi.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to have a sign or banner made for my front yard and use this for Yule cards this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/the-solstice-is-the-reason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-pagan-stuff","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}