{"id":4065,"date":"2023-12-15T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:15:25","slug":"why-do-we-have-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Have Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA424.jpg\" alt=\"Why Do We Have Christmas?\" class=\"wp-image-4066\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA424.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/JPA424-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A typical holiday season juxtaposition for editorial cartoonists: the Holy Family as poor, desperate refugees and the current treatment of poor, desperate refugees by certain folks who worship the Holy Family. It&#8217;s kind of low hanging fruit, and I have to admit that&#8217;s where I started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is so much more hypocrisy out there to choose from! So I looked further and was inspired by listening to &#8220;For Unto Us a Child Is Born&#8221; from Handel&#8217;s Messiah, which is often performed at Christmas time. The lyrics are from Isaiah 9:6:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the &#8220;prince of peace&#8221; that always sticks with me. I can&#8217;t think of a more perfect description of what a savior should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical holiday season juxtaposition for editorial cartoonists: the Holy Family as poor, desperate refugees and the current treatment of poor, desperate refugees by certain folks who worship the Holy Family. It&#8217;s kind of low hanging fruit, and I have to admit that&#8217;s where I started. But there is so much more hypocrisy out there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}