{"id":44215,"date":"2019-12-25T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=44215"},"modified":"2019-12-25T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T02:05:23","slug":"spend-time-with-the-obamas-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/spend-time-with-the-obamas-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend Time With the Obamas on Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 25, I normally wish my readers a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/i-wish-you-a-merry-titmas\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merry Titmas<\/a>&#8221; and bless them with a photo of vintage pin-up star Bettie Page. However, in light of the persistent right-wing lie about a &#8220;war on Christmas,&#8221; here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-obama-christmas-msnbc-video-show-president-wrong-happy-holidays-claim-bring-back-a8085731.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Merry Christmas montage from Barack and Michelle Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6d7mTRaUmaE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For contrast, here&#8217;s the supposed savior talking to a seven-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: &quot;Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it&#39;s marginal, right?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHexvFSbQ1\">pic.twitter.com\/VHexvFSbQ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedailybeast\/status\/1077375011600678912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, fuck it, here&#8217;s Bettie Page anyway.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='bXR_xkvtTWpJ4oDcCUy1tg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/71654836' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'bXR_xkvtTWpJ4oDcCUy1tg',sig:'CCm8Fw23ZTt1JIC54I_VmsKR31e4JBHgIM1uG3bK1hg=',w:'466px',h:'594px',items:'71654836',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Happy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and Titmas and Season&#8217;s Greetings and Winter Solstice too. If only there was an appropriately accessorized Bettie Page image for all occasions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 25, I normally wish my readers a &#8220;Merry Titmas&#8221; and bless them with a photo of vintage pin-up star Bettie Page. However, in light of the persistent right-wing lie about a &#8220;war on Christmas,&#8221; here&#8217;s a Merry Christmas montage from Barack and Michelle Obama. For contrast, here&#8217;s the supposed savior talking to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/spend-time-with-the-obamas-on-christmas\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101,723],"tags":[2238,1476,2236,2237],"class_list":["post-44215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-holidays","category-special-occasions","tag-happy-hanukkah","tag-merry-christmas","tag-merry-christmas-to-all-the-assholes","tag-merry-titmas","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44215"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44223,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44215\/revisions\/44223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}