{"id":2426,"date":"2024-12-25T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","slug":"mary-merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/mary-merry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary? Merry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ccc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ccc.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ccc-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Closed for the Holiday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d17b57b0d85a471d5d55cf725aac463e\">Four score and two thousand years ago. Mary was with the Christ-child on her way to Jerusalem from Nazareth, only to stop and give birth in Bethlehem to the Savior of the world. <br>     In a parallel universe&#8230;..Merry was on her way from The Yukon to Greenland to give birth to <br>Santa Claus. How these two worlds collide have become a storied tale for the ages. <br>     History records suggests the Catholic Church in Rome, Italy, began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in <strong>336 CE<\/strong> to replace the pagan celebrations. However, several ancient manuscripts and theories reveal that the original celebrations of Christmas began even earlier than 336 CE.<br> <br>When fact checked by Snopes it was found to be true, that all propaganda concerning The Catholic Church is false. So we end up somewhere at a crossroad in Clarksville, MS. &#8230;..stay tuned, more to follow.<br><br>Merry Christmas, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four score and two thousand years ago. Mary was with the Christ-child on her way to Jerusalem from Nazareth, only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,7,3,9,6,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-diydo-it-yourself","category-faith","category-food","category-humor","category-music","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cc.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}