{"id":15562,"date":"2014-11-12T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=15562"},"modified":"2014-11-12T06:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:20:04","slug":"what-thanksgiving-has-to-do-with-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-thanksgiving-has-to-do-with-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"What Thanksgiving Has to Do with Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are complaints aplenty out there about how <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> has stolen time and appreciation from <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a>. Those who cry foul by claiming &#8220;Christmas creep&#8221; miss the larger lessons of history &#8212; and they fail to really see the absurdity of their complaints when compared to the worldwide stage. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/ct-christmas-creep-thanksgiving-halloween-perspec-1112-jm-20141111-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this epic rant<\/strong><\/a> and compare it to <a href=\"http:\/\/realchristmas.com\/i-take-offense-of-your-offense\/\" target=\"_blank\">THIS epic rant<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>After all, in the UK their annual early-November tradition of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is to showcase and celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> advertisements launched by English department stores. The ads are anticipated as greatly there as <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus is at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a> Day parade in New York. <\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> commercials in the USA are getting hammered for their mere presence and are labeled as &#8220;Christmas creep&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>What is the connection between <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Understanding the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a> gives context and clarity to the celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We get into it in the first of a series of new videos appearing on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQq7R5Dap5o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are complaints aplenty out there about how Christmas has stolen time and appreciation from Thanksgiving. Those who cry foul by claiming &#8220;Christmas creep&#8221; miss the larger lessons of history &#8212; and they fail to really see the absurdity of their complaints when compared to the worldwide stage. (See this epic rant and compare it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,28,129,11],"tags":[22,271],"class_list":["post-15562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-decorating","category-christmas-features","category-sacred-christmas","category-thanksgiving","tag-christmas","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}