{"id":119,"date":"2005-12-25T00:37:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-12-25\/119"},"modified":"2005-12-25T00:37:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T15:37:33","slug":"the-true-meaning-of-christmas-japanese-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-12-25\/119","title":{"rendered":"The True Meaning of Christmas, Japanese Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr valign=\"top\"><td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"410\">\n<a href=\"\/i\/HollyNight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/HollyNight-sm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"556\"\nid=\"iHollyNight_sm\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td><td>\n\n<p>\n\nWho says that the Japanese don't know the reason for the season?\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nWe received this advertisement from <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.antenor.jp\">Antenor<\/a>, <span class='nobr'>a Japanese<\/span> (but French-wanna-be)\nsweet shop who knows that the true meaning of Christmas centers around\n&#8220;<b>any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus <i><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/education.yahoo.com\/reference\/dictionary\/entry\/holly\">Ilex<\/a><\/i>,\nusually having bright red berries and glossy evergreen leaves with spiny\nmargins.<\/b>&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n\n   \n\n<p>\n\nAnd at more than $20 for a tiny cake less than 5\" in diameter, their idea\nof Christmas sure isn't cheap.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nOne possible source of the high cost is, looking at the decorations, they\nseem to have splurged for the entire\n&#8220;<b>Merry&nbsp;Christmas<\/b>&#8221;, rather than the far-more-common,\nfar more offensive &#8220;Merry&nbsp;X'mas&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td valign=\"bottom\">\n\n(<small>To be fair, their Japanese translation of &#8220;Holly Night&#8221;\nis &#8220;Holy Night&#8221; so maybe the reference to holly is, just\nperhaps, a&nbsp;typo&nbsp;<\/small><b>\ud83d\ude42<\/b>\n\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Who says that the Japanese don't know the reason for the season? <\/p><p> We received this advertisement from Antenor, a Japanese (but French-wanna-be) sweet shop who knows that the true meaning of Christmas centers around \"<b>any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex, usually having bright red berries and glossy evergreen leaves with spiny margins.<\/b>\" <\/p> <p> And at more than $20 for a tiny cake less than 5\" in diameter, their idea of Christmas sure isn't cheap. <\/p><p> One possible source of the high cost is, looking at the decorations, they seem to have splurged for [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}