{"id":255,"date":"2005-12-01T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/12\/01\/puritan-christmas\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T07:14:00","slug":"puritan-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/12\/01\/puritan-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Puritan Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1149'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.town.arlington.ma.us\/Home\/\">Town of Arlington<\/a>&#8216;s mailing list:&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">our Protestant Puritan Forefathers explicitly forbade any celebration of the Christmas Holiday as it was an invitation to debauchery and prideful behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What foresight&#8230;&nbsp; I love that list, and this town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Town of Arlington&#8216;s mailing list:&nbsp;&nbsp; our Protestant Puritan Forefathers explicitly forbade any celebration of the Christmas Holiday as it was an invitation to debauchery and prideful behavior. What foresight&#8230;&nbsp; I love that list, and this town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}