{"id":4293,"date":"2005-12-24T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/12\/24\/our-traditional-holiday-greet"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:17","slug":"our-traditional-holiday-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/12\/24\/our-traditional-holiday-greeting\/","title":{"rendered":"our “traditional” holiday greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christmas 1950<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P>
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No matter how you celebrate,<\/FONT> f\/k\/a <\/EM>wishes you a time filled with much joy,<\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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gratitude <\/FONT>and<\/FONT> holiday spirit<\/FONT>.  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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big sister Linda in the middle and in charge, and twin Arthur for ballast.)  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“snowflakeS”  Check out our brand-new Christmas Season Haiku<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> page. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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It’s great to be around long enough to have our own Christmas weblog tradition.  Here’s a repeat of our December. 23, 2003 post    ethicalEsq’s first slippery slope     Christmas 1950 the giacalone law firm No matter how you celebrate, f\/k\/a wishes you a time filled with much joy,   gratitude and holiday spirit.      Don’t forget to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17f","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4293\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}