{"id":933650,"date":"2022-12-25T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5704ccd25caec53a35c17465694a40ad"},"modified":"2022-12-25T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T15:27:37","slug":"tidings-of-discomfort-and-joy-christmas-as-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/25\/tidings-of-discomfort-and-joy-christmas-as-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidings of Discomfort and Joy: Christmas as Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if everyone who celebrates Christmas in the U.S. agreed to forget the presents, the stockings and the parties, and instead use the day to act on the actual message of the Christmas story? For Christians in the U.S., December 25 is widely described as a holiday of &ldquo;comfort and joy,&rdquo; but if those of us who celebrate this holiday actually sit with the Christmas story that we&rsquo;re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/tidings-of-discomfort-and-joy-christmas-as-resistance\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas offers an opportunity for those who celebrate it to recommit to the love and solidarity its story teaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,645,648,4711,215,563,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933696,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933650\/revisions\/933696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}