{"id":9809,"date":"2013-11-06T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:00:39","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-sowing-clover-xmas-musings-by-tonya-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/from-the-zephyr-archives-sowing-clover-xmas-musings-by-tonya-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) Sowing Clover: Xmas Musings&#8230;by Tonya Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my memory, every Christmas was perfect. And yet, even then, it was practically a truism that Christmas had become a materialist binge. In Catholic school, teachers passed out pencils emblazoned with the words \u201cJesus is the Reason for the Season.\u201d Mothers and Fathers of all political stripes cautioned their children not to forget the joy of generosity, of homemade cards and popsicle-stick ornaments. Now \u201cOccupiers\u201d have camped outside the national temples of greed\u2014WalMart, Best Buy and their ilk\u2014to remind shoppers that capitalism and Christmas needn\u2019t go together. Everyone has agreed for decades that the shopping, the money-grubbing, the gluttonous excess of the holiday is at best absurd, and at worst, dangerous&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Tonya&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sowing-clover-by-tonya-stiles-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9810\" alt=\"sacrecouer-300x225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sacrecouer-300x225.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sowing-clover-by-tonya-stiles-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sowing-clover-by-tonya-stiles-2\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;In my memory, every Christmas was perfect. And yet, even then, it was practically a truism that Christmas had become a materialist binge. In Catholic school, teachers passed out pencils emblazoned with the words \u201cJesus is the Reason for the Season.\u201d Mothers and Fathers of all political stripes cautioned their children not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}