I tried desperately to find other things to fill my time but alas, I was not successful. I am one of the masses of individuals from work starring in a holiday wishes commercial at a local television station. It was a fun group and our fearless leader nailed the commercial on the first take – but flubbed the second one – but I do wish we’d been able to say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”.<\/p>\n
I know, I know. We’re a multi-cultural country and company. Happy Holidays<\/em> covers a multitude of religious and non-denominational celebrations that take place in December and January. We have diversity dinners and holiday parties, greeting cards and special occasion clothing, new years festivities and Santa.<\/p>\n As a country, we’ve worked hard to remove any semblance of Christianity from the holiday season. I don’t identify with most Christian faiths, but a tiny grinch in me misses hearing the phrase “Merry Christmas” in schools, stores and at the workplace.<\/p>\n Which leaves me wondering, am I the only one?<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: commercials<\/a>, happy holidays<\/a>, merry christmas<\/a>, grinch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tried desperately to find other things to fill my time but alas, I was not successful. I am one of the masses of individuals from work starring in a holiday wishes commercial at a local television station. It was a fun group and our fearless leader nailed the commercial on the first take – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frothing-at-the-bit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}