{"id":1399,"date":"2016-12-26T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2016-12-26T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:12:01","slug":"and-speaking-of-fifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of fifty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kwanzaa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1400\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kwanzaa.jpg\" alt=\"kwanzaa\" width=\"272\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you call it a &#8220;real&#8221; holiday or not, the first Kwanzaa was celebrated 50 years ago this week. Apparently 1966 was a big year for holidays&#8230; Kwanzaa, the TV yule log, the Grinch. (Legend goes that Festivus started in &#8217;66 as well.)<\/p>\n<p>So is Kwanzaa a real holiday? A made-up holiday? Let&#8217;s face it, all holidays are made up at some point, so yeah, Kwanzaa&#8217;s as real as any other in my book.<\/p>\n<p>And if 50 years is our definition of a classic, a classic it is.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Kwanzaa, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you call it a &#8220;real&#8221; holiday or not, the first Kwanzaa was celebrated 50 years ago this week. Apparently 1966 was a big year for holidays&#8230; Kwanzaa, the TV yule log, the Grinch. (Legend goes that Festivus started in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}