{"id":11181,"date":"2015-11-09T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11181"},"modified":"2015-11-09T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:16:32","slug":"starbucks-declares-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11181","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks declares war on Christmas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I kinda figured you were tired of me writing about ole Ben Carson so I thought I&#8217;d go another direction today&#8230;.if you haven&#8217;t heard, Starbucks has declared war on Christmas&#8230;.at least according to some of the really crazy religionists on the right&#8230;and, how are they doing that you may ask? They have taken aim at Christmas by taking the snowflakes and reindeer off of their cups! I tell you it&#8217;s a travesty&#8230;Christmas will be ruined now that you can only get plain red cups for your coffee in the morning! Yeah, that sounds pretty ridiculous, huh? But, there are a bunch of nuts on the right who have taken this seriously to the point that a rant video by one of these nuts had gotten over 10 million hits&#8230;and write-ups in many of the mainstream newspapers followed&#8230;and not even tongue in cheek like my rant here&#8230;I wonder if we are going to have to endure this crap for the next two months when someone somewhere doesn&#8217;t celebrate Christmas to the satisfaction of these crazies&#8230;I know it will give me something to ridicule but I mean, really? Don&#8217;t these folks have anything better to do? I&#8217;ll bet Starbucks is shaking with the threat of a boycott&#8230;okay, I even laughed at that one&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I kinda figured you were tired of me writing about ole Ben Carson so I thought I&#8217;d go another direction today&#8230;.if you haven&#8217;t heard, Starbucks has declared war on Christmas&#8230;.at least according to some of the really crazy religionists on the right&#8230;and, how are they doing that you may ask? They have taken aim at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=11181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starbucks declares war on Christmas&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[313,1302],"class_list":["post-11181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-christmas","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11182,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions\/11182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}