{"id":130,"date":"2025-11-15T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/?p=130"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:59:54","slug":"christmas-wasnt-always-on-december-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/2025\/11\/15\/christmas-wasnt-always-on-december-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas wasn&#8217;t always on December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"css-11fpkzc e1tmud0h8\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"css-8t0ynx e1tmud0h3\">\n<div class=\"css-5k9guf ew0wum61\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"An illustrated nativity scene of angels above the holy family with Jesus in a manger\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/the-nativity-madonna-and-child-from-the-life-of-our-lord-news-photo-170987579-1541696374.jpg?crop=0.767xw:0.899xh;0.116xw,0.0486xh&amp;resize=980:*\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/the-nativity-madonna-and-child-from-the-life-of-our-lord-news-photo-170987579-1541696374.jpg?crop=0.767xw:0.899xh;0.116xw,0.0486xh&amp;resize=480:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/the-nativity-madonna-and-child-from-the-life-of-our-lord-news-photo-170987579-1541696374.jpg?crop=0.767xw:0.899xh;0.116xw,0.0486xh&amp;resize=980:* 980w\" alt=\"an illustrated nativity scene of angels above the holy family with jesus in a manger\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1220\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-18oiw2p e1tmud0h6\">\n<div class=\"css-r2y9y3 e1tmud0h7\">\n<p class=\"css-106f026 et3p2gv0\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date of the big event is lost to history. There&#8217;s no mention of December 25 in the Bible and many historians say Jesus was most likely born in the spring. Some historians posit the date was originally chosen because it coincided with the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which honored the agricultural god Saturn with celebrating and gift-giving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date of the big event is lost to history. There&#8217;s no mention of December 25 in the Bible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/2025\/11\/15\/christmas-wasnt-always-on-december-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas wasn&#8217;t always on December 25<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bevnice.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}