{"id":4118,"date":"2007-01-17T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4118"},"modified":"2007-01-17T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:48:37","slug":"have_yourself_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/have_yourself_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Have yourself an orientalist Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ennnis\/360797019\/\"><img class=picture height=500 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/Orientalist%20Christmas_1.jpg\" width=375 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>I took this photo on January 3<span style=\"font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: super\">rd<\/span>, in the train station in Granada, the day after the entire town celebrated the anniversary of the Reconquista in 1492. [It&#8217;s the one day of the year that anybody can ring the bells in the fortress portion of the Alhambra.] Needless to say, I was highly amused. It&#8217;s like the song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/detail.php?id=1579\">Do they know it&#8217;s Christmas<\/a>&#8221; which was, at the time, the UKs best selling single ever. It assumes that a Sadhu and a <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tuareg&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">Muslim Tuareg<\/a> celebrate Christmas just because people in the west do. It&#8217;s Christmas-centrism!<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this photo on January 3rd, in the train station in Granada, the day after the entire town celebrated the anniversary of the Reconquista in 1492. [It&#8217;s the one day of the year that anybody can ring the bells &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/have_yourself_a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}