{"id":3699,"date":"2015-12-23T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2015-12-23T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:40:43","slug":"a-festivus-satirical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/12\/23\/a-festivus-satirical\/","title":{"rendered":"A Festivus Satirical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/12\/17\/oklahoma-state-capitol-will-be-home-to-a-rainbow-colored-festivus-pole\/\">Hemant Mehta prophesied<\/a> that the &#8220;Oklahoma State Capitol Will Be Home to a Rainbow-Colored Festivus Pole.&#8221; He also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/12\/17\/oklahoma-legislators-condemn-festivus-pole-calling-it-a-slap-in-the-face-of-all-christians\/\">took note<\/a> of several apoplectic State Legislators who seem to believe that said pole would be a &#8220;slap in the face of every Christian in Oklahoma&#8221; and an &#8220;example of the continued war on Christmas&#8221; as well as a demonstration of &#8220;hostility and intolerance toward&#8230;Christian beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All this incoherent rage at the mere prospect of a small satirical jab at the holiday season may well have had its desired effect, since no one showed up to the Capitol bearing a Festivus pole this morning. Christmas, in its relatively benign manifestation as a secular holiday focused on decorations and consumerism, remains firmly entrenched and in undisputed control of both the rotunda and the south steps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No sign of the fabled festivus pole in the Capitol rotunda&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5hae14WJ1g\">pic.twitter.com\/5hae14WJ1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oklahoma Atheists (@AtheistOK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtheistOK\/status\/679746737628553217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">No festivus poles out here, either. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZuXfit3i0\">pic.twitter.com\/yZuXfit3i0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oklahoma Atheists (@AtheistOK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtheistOK\/status\/679747607908847617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chaz Stevens and his minions are, alas, nowhere to be seen. Perhaps he was making the point that <i>merely filing for a permit<\/i> is a defiant act of trolling which will bring angry Christianists out of the woodwork. If so, hats off to you, sir. Next year, though, let\u2019s arrange for the real thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Hemant Mehta prophesied that the &#8220;Oklahoma State Capitol Will Be Home to a Rainbow-Colored Festivus Pole.&#8221; He also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movement","category-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}