{"id":52692,"date":"2015-12-23T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_tajikistan_bans_christmas_and_new_year_celebrations\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:40:32","slug":"afp_tajikistan_bans_christmas_and_new_year_celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52692","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Tajikistan bans Christmas and new year celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tajikistan has tightened restrictions on festive season celebrations, banning Christmas trees and gift-giving in schools.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s measures are the toughest yet implemented by the country, which has been toning down Christmas and new year celebrations for some time \u201d\u201c banning Father Frost, Russia\u2019s version of Santa Claus, from television screens in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A decree by the education ministry prohibits \u201cthe use of fireworks, festive meals, gift-giving and raising money\u201d\u009d over new year as well as \u201cthe installation of a Christmas tree either living (felled wood) or artificial\u201d\u009d in schools and universities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/dec\/23\/tajikistan-bans-christmas-and-new-year\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tajikistan has tightened restrictions on festive season celebrations, banning Christmas trees and gift-giving in schools. This year\u2019s measures are the toughest yet implemented by the country, which has been toning down Christmas and new year celebrations for some time \u201d\u201c<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52692\">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":[48,39,40,50,201,575,187,168,114,151,108,501,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-tajikistan","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52692","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=52692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}