{"id":269,"date":"2007-12-24T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/happy-honda-day"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:44:19","slug":"happy-honda-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/happy-honda-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy &#8220;Honda Days!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/12\/garys_cycle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Garys_cycle\" height=\"235\" alt=\"Garys_cycle\" src=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/12\/garys_cycle1.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 324px; HEIGHT: 235px\" \/><\/a> I know a lot of people have been upset in recent days that everyone doesn&#8217;t say &quot;Merry Christmas.&quot; I surely have no disagreement with their distress. It is after all the name of the season we celebrate. Those who want to generalize things and leave the Christian message out by saying &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; are certainly fooling no one. This is Christmas and we all know it.<\/p>\n<p>But this Christmas someone in our church has caused me to start a new saying. Not that I would take the meaning out of Christmas, but this WCCer has given me such a gift that it has caused me to say something totally new for the season.<\/p>\n<p>For I have found a Honda under the tree&#8230; for me!<\/p>\n<p>So, forgive me for saying, &quot;Happy Honda Days!&quot; Because I&#8217;ll be the one in leathers and Dingo boots astride my mighty, straight piped steed.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been surprised at Christmas like this since I was a kid. I&#8217;m thankful for the friendship and love that a personal gift like this bestows. It&#8217;s good to know that people appreciate what you do and the friendship you offer.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m looking for fellow cyclers to join me. Wanna go for a ride?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of people have been upset in recent days that everyone doesn&#8217;t say &quot;Merry Christmas.&quot; I surely have no disagreement with their distress. It is after all the name of the season we celebrate. Those who want to generalize things and leave the Christian message out by saying &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; are certainly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}