Good Friday, everybody. Though I’m not sure what there is about a person getting nailed to a cross that can be considered “good.” Hell of a way to end the week if you ask me. Bloody Romans. <\/p>\n
Apparently in England, New Zealand, and Australia (if Wikipedia can be believed), they celebrate the day by eating hot cross buns. Catholics are supposed to observe fasting and<\/em><\/strong> abstinence today (my guess is I’ll go one-for-two), and in Ireland they ban the sale of alcohol and close the pubs . \ud83d\ude2f For yet another reason to move to Canada, consider that today is part of a four-day weekend that runs through Easter Monday (legal pot and the Easter Bunny – good thing insulin’s cheap up there). For the record, I think we ought to get off for all of Passover, Chanukah, Kwanza, Black History Month, Chinese New year, and any other holidays I may have left out. <\/p>\n Speaking of left out, have I somehow missed a big stink and cry over the “War on Easter” from John Gibson, Bill O’Reilly, and the rest of the Kritstian Krusaders? I mean, Easter’s the money shot, Christ-wise. Not that I claim to be an expert (being a religious-ed dropout, I learned most of what I know from movies like “The Robe” – which they showed on TV every year when I was a kid – and “The Ten Commandments.” For instance, did you know they had very perky breasts, back in bible times?), but X-mas is really pretty minor compared to Easter (I mean, anybody can get born, but that resurrection stuff is quite a trick).<\/p>\n Anyway, whatever your faith (or lack thereof), have a good Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good Friday, everybody. Though I’m not sure what there is about a person getting nailed to a cross that can be considered “good.” Hell of a way to end the week if you ask me. Bloody Romans. Apparently in England, New Zealand, and Australia (if Wikipedia can be believed), they celebrate the day by eating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}