{"id":23927,"date":"2020-12-21T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/in-1659-massachusetts-made-it-illegal-to-celebrate-christmas#id28689"},"modified":"2020-12-21T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:16:00","slug":"in-1659-massachusetts-made-it-illegal-to-celebrate-christmas-a-ban-that-lasted-for-the-next-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/in-1659-massachusetts-made-it-illegal-to-celebrate-christmas-a-ban-that-lasted-for-the-next-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1659, Massachusetts made it illegal to celebrate Christmas\u2014a ban that lasted for the next 22 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wam9YNZ7SRQ?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1659, Massachusetts made it illegal to celebrate Christmas&mdash;a ban that lasted for the next 22 years.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/12\/when-christmas-was-legally-banned-for-22-years-by-the-puritans-in-colonial-massachusetts.html\">via Open Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/in-1659-massachusetts-made-it-illegal-to-celebrate-christmas\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    In 1659, Massachusetts made it illegal to celebrate Christmas&mdash;a ban that lasted for the next 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>via Open Culture<\/p>\n<p>  View Post &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23928,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions\/23928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}