{"id":16394,"date":"2009-11-30T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/inaccurate_christmas_carols_have_turned_birth_of_jesus_into_a_pantomime_sto\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T01:20:21","slug":"inaccurate_christmas_carols_have_turned_birth_of_jesus_into_a_pantomime_sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16394","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Inaccurate&#39; Christmas carols have turned birth of Jesus into a pantomime story, claims bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Christmas carols are &#8216;nonsense&#8217; and have turned the birth of Jesus Christ into a fairy story, according to a respected bishop.<\/p>\n<p>In a new book on the festive period, The Right Reverend Nick Baines, the Bishop of Croydon, claims some of the nation&#8217;s favourite carols are &#8217;embarrassing&#8217; and &#8216;inaccurate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He says the songs encourage people to believe that the story of Christ&#8217;s birth is as fictitious as Father Christmas or a pantomime story.<\/p>\n<p>Carol lovers, however, defended the traditional songs and say they help people to look beyond a &#8216;commercialised&#8217; Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1231836\/Inaccurate-Christmas-carols-turned-birth-Jesus-pantomime-story-claims-Bishop.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Christmas carols are &#8216;nonsense&#8217; and have turned the birth of Jesus Christ into a fairy story, according to a respected bishop. In a new book on the festive period, The Right Reverend Nick Baines, the Bishop of Croydon, claims<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16394\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,74,575,389,187,635,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-christmas","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-coe-bishops","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}