{"id":15308,"date":"2013-10-14T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2013-10-14T01:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:59:27","slug":"youre-not-really-celebrating-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/youre-not-really-celebrating-this-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re not really celebrating this guy???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/columbus_day\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Columbus Day<\/a>. At least to you federal workers, bankers, and Catholic school kids. (Do Catholic schools still give Columbus Day off? When I was a kid in government school I spent many hours pondering whether getting an extra holiday would be ample compensation for getting knuckles rapped with rulers by terrible fierce nuns.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing you&#8217;re really celebrating a three-day weekend, rather than celebrating that dude. (The other guy mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bartolome_de_las_Casas\" target=\"_blank\">had his own problems<\/a>, but he did beat old Chris by a moral mile &#8212; and then some.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Columbus Day. At least to you federal workers, bankers, and Catholic school kids. (Do Catholic schools still give Columbus Day off? When I was a kid in government school I spent many hours pondering whether getting an extra holiday would be ample compensation for getting knuckles rapped with rulers by terrible fierce nuns.) It&#8217;s a good thing you&#8217;re really celebrating a three-day weekend, rather than celebrating that dude. (The other guy mentioned had his own problems, but he did beat old Chris by a moral mile &#8212; and then some.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}