{"id":1249,"date":"2021-11-12T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2021-11-12T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:53:45","slug":"christmas-before-remembrance-day-yay-or-nay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2021\/11\/christmas-before-remembrance-day-yay-or-nay\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas before Remembrance Day? Yay or Nay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay so this is something that I have always been\u00a0 firm believer on &#8211; but it appears as though I might not be in the majority. So I&#8217;m turning it to you &#8211; what do you think?!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/theaquinian.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/remem-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"The controversy of Christmas before Remembrance Day - The Aquinian\" width=\"345\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this is how I was reminded. Well, I was reminded twice. Once while speaking with my parents. The other time was when I was out with a friend and we dropped into Winners &#8211; the shop that Ms. Pucci and Ms. Delorme love, as well as me of course! Back to the story &#8211; so I was browsing around and what do I see? Christmas decor! You name it &#8211; wreathes, nutcrackers, snow globes, etc. Shoppers were definitely purchasing Christmas items but I was slightly upset thinking that we should pay tribute to Remembrance Day first, and then start Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Please read through the below articles, as veterans have also shared their thoughts on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/christmas-decorations-before-remembrance-day-veterans-weigh-in-on-debate-1.4679108\">https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/christmas-decorations-before-remembrance-day-veterans-weigh-in-on-debate-1.4679108<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/christmas-before-remembrance-day\">https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/christmas-before-remembrance-day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/christmas-decorations-before-remembrance-day-shows-lack-of-respect-brett-wilson-says-1.2826120\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/christmas-decorations-before-remembrance-day-shows-lack-of-respect-brett-wilson-says-1.2826120<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please respond to the questions below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is your opinion? Should Christmas celebrations wait until after Remembrance Day, doesn&#8217;t matter, both, or something else? Provide details! (15 sentences)<\/li>\n<li>Should there be a fixed date on when retailers should start putting out Christmas decor? (5 sentences)<\/li>\n<li>Any other details \/ facts \/ opinions that you would like to mention.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/Q4k7I07Ym9rF0hkz67hBcg--~B\/aD00Mzk7dz03ODA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en-CA\/homerun\/cbc.ca\/5c4a5287e24ca0065c140695392e12be\" alt=\"Putting off Christmas store decorations until after Remembrance Day urged\" width=\"344\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay so this is something that I have always been\u00a0 firm believer on &#8211; but it appears as though I might not be in the majority. So I&#8217;m turning it to you &#8211; what do you think?! So this is how I was reminded. Well, I was reminded twice. Once while speaking with my parents. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/2021\/11\/christmas-before-remembrance-day-yay-or-nay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas before Remembrance Day? Yay or Nay?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/panesarj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}