{"id":1031,"date":"2008-12-16T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/12\/16\/from-the-dept-of-you-thought-youve-heard-everything\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T04:00:42","slug":"from-the-dept-of-you-thought-youve-heard-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/12\/16\/from-the-dept-of-you-thought-youve-heard-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"from the dept. of you thought you&#8217;ve heard everything&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, via, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianpost.com\/article\/20081215\/obama-figurines-top-nativity-scene-add-ons.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Christian Post<\/a>, comes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Italian city of Naples has for centuries made big profits through the sale of nativity scene figurines. It is home to some of the finest displays of the nativity scene in the world.  <\/p>\n<p>And each year, craftsmen in Naples come up with figurines of some of today\u2019s best known public figures, which are often added to traditional displays.  <\/p>\n<p>This year, most likely to be standing alongside Mary and Joseph, or perhaps the three wise men, will be another heralded couple \u2013 the Obamas. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad sad crazy world out there&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/don-sig212.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, via, the Christian Post, comes this: The Italian city of Naples has for centuries made big profits through the sale of nativity scene figurines. It is home to some of the finest displays of the nativity scene in the world. And each year, craftsmen in Naples come up with figurines of some of today\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[66,72],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-gD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}