{"id":424,"date":"2006-12-25T05:27:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/12\/today-im-going-to-give-you-something-to-think-about\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:42:28","slug":"today-im-going-to-give-you-something-to-think-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/12\/25\/today-im-going-to-give-you-something-to-think-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, I&#8217;m going to give you something to think about&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why?  Because you can&#8217;t return it.  I know that most people would gladly take store credit at Chuck&#8217;s  house of Cheeses and Motor Oil than actually have a thought, but there&#8217;s no returning this one, not even for a slab of finely aged recycled AeroShell 10w-40 cheddar [tasty, and environmentally friendly].<\/p>\n<p>So, here it is:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf you think that I [or the atheists, the schools, the nasty, nasty retailers, whatever] have stolen Christmas from you in whatever way [by not wishing someone a &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217;, by calling it &#8216;winter break&#8217;, by not having five thousand pounds of crowded and unreadable banners for all possible variations &#8212; with merry christmas being featured most prominently, <i>of course<\/i>], then it is you, not the accused, who has lost the Christmas Spirit\/True Meaning&trade;.<\/p>\n<p>Got that?  Nobody stole your holiday &#8212; you threw it away.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever say I didn&#8217;t give you anything.<\/p>\n<p>PS: if you must bitch, stop saying &#8220;<i>Chrissmas<\/i>,&#8221; &#8216;kay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Because you can&#8217;t return it. I know that most people would gladly take store credit at Chuck&#8217;s house of Cheeses and Motor Oil than actually have a thought, but there&#8217;s no returning this one, not even for a slab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/12\/25\/today-im-going-to-give-you-something-to-think-about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-6Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}