{"id":57509,"date":"2022-12-24T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=57509"},"modified":"2022-12-24T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:20:45","slug":"some-christmas-adjacent-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=57509","title":{"rendered":"Some Christmas-adjacent posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001750.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking animals: Miracle or curse?<\/a>\", 12\/24\/2004<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seven fishes<\/a>\", 12\/26\/2008<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask LL: A paradox of words?<\/a>\", 12\/30\/2009<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mele Kalikimka!<\/a>\", 12\/25\/2010<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch out for those talking animals tonight<\/a>\", 12\/24\/2013<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reindeer talk<\/a>\", 12\/24\/2013<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=23017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trigger warning: Talking animals<\/a>\", 12\/24\/2015<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=29981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Night<\/a>\", 12\/25\/2016<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For today, some links on the Puritans' feelings about Christmas:<\/p>\n<p>J.A.R. Pimlott, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/archive\/feature\/christmas-under-puritans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas under the Puritans<\/a>\", <em>History Today<\/em> 12\/12\/1960<br \/>\nErica Yee, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/history\/2017\/12\/25\/plymouth-colony-christmas-1621\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Plymouth Colony governor confiscated toys from Pilgrims on Christmas Day: Merrymaking was not encouraged in 1621<\/a>\", Boston.com 12\/25\/2017<br \/>\nPeter Mancall, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-the-puritans-cracked-down-on-celebrating-christmas-151359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why the Puritans cracked down on celebrating Christmas<\/a>\", <em>The Conversation<\/em> 12\/17\/2020<br \/>\nPastor Stephen, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayviewbiblechurch.org\/post\/puritans-ban-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why the Pilgrims Hated Christmas<\/a>\", <em>Bayview Bible Church<\/em> 12\/17\/2020<\/p>\n<p>To which I feel we should say \"Merry Christmas!\" (and \"Io <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturnalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturnalia<\/a>!\"&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Talking animals: Miracle or curse?\", 12\/24\/2004 \"Seven fishes\", 12\/26\/2008 \"Ask LL: A paradox of words?\", 12\/30\/2009 \"Mele Kalikimka!\", 12\/25\/2010 \"Watch out for those talking animals tonight\", 12\/24\/2013 \"Reindeer talk\", 12\/24\/2013 \"Trigger warning: Talking animals\", 12\/24\/2015 \"Silent Night\", 12\/25\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57518,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57509\/revisions\/57518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}