{"id":123064,"date":"2018-08-08T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123064"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:53:02","slug":"jews-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123064","title":{"rendered":"Jews &#038; Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/vox-why-insulting-jews-is-bad-but-insulting-whites-is-good\/\">Stan Adams writes<\/a>: At my first office job (in college), I continued my childhood habit (instilled in me by my mother and grandmother) of giving small Christmas gifts to all of my co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>One of my female co-workers looked at the gift and said, \u201cUm \u2026 you do know I\u2019m Jewish, right? I don\u2019t celebrate Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cWell, think of it as a Hanukkah gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHanukkah is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s just a seasonal gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a seasonal gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust think of it as a nice gesture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a nice gesture. It\u2019s a Christmas gift, and don\u2019t try to pretend that it\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, then maybe I should just take it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s all right. I\u2019m not overly offended. I\u2019ll keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(She never did say \u201cThank you.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The next year, I didn\u2019t bother with the gifts. I was tempted to give that particular woman a card saying \u201cHappy Kwanzaa, you f**king c**t,\u201d but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Adams writes: At my first office job (in college), I continued my childhood habit (instilled in me by my mother and grandmother) of giving small Christmas gifts to all of my co-workers. One of my female co-workers looked at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123064\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29706,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123065,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123064\/revisions\/123065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}