{"id":47263,"date":"2014-12-08T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_unholy_row_as_nativity_scene_ban_divides_france\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:00:16","slug":"guardian_unholy_row_as_nativity_scene_ban_divides_france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47263","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Unholy row as nativity scene ban divides France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been called the nativity war. A French court\u2019s ban on a nativity scene in a town hall in order to preserve France\u2019s secular traditions has triggered a fierce backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not ban Christmas and the public holidays that go with it?\u201d\u009d thundered Le Parisien on Sunday. Its headline read: \u201cSpare us a nativity war.\u201d\u009d According to the newspaper, 86% of more than 12,000 readers surveyed were in favour of keeping nativity scenes in public places.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Nantes ordered regional authorities in the western town of La Roche-sur-Yon to remove the crib from its building\u2019s entrance hall, after a complaint from the secular campaign group F\u00c3\u00a9d\u00c3\u00a9ration Nationale de la Libre Pens\u00c3\u00a9e.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/07\/nativity-scene-ban-france-court-la-roche-sur-yon\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been called the nativity war. A French court\u2019s ban on a nativity scene in a town hall in order to preserve France\u2019s secular traditions has triggered a fierce backlash. \u201cWhy not ban Christmas and the public holidays that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47263\">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":[48,39,50,575,187,200,468,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-europe","category-france","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47263","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=47263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}