{"id":3189,"date":"2018-12-15T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com?p=3189&preview=true&preview_id=3189"},"modified":"2020-01-10T02:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:28:51","slug":"nebraska-principal-of-elementary-school-plays-grinch-and-bands-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/nebraska-principal-of-elementary-school-plays-grinch-and-bands-christmas-20181215","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Principal of Elementary School Plays Grinch, Bans Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, about this time, there is a new story of someone who just can’t abide the American tradition and holiday called Christmas. Never mind, it’s been practiced for over 200 years in this country and is a national holiday. This year it’s Nebraska principal of Manchester Elementary School, Jennifer Sinclair, who is the “grinch”.<\/p>\n

Banned!<\/h2>\n

She banned candy canes because they were in the shape of a “J” which stands for “Jesus,” and the color red is representative of the “blood of Jesus,” and the white “is a symbol of his resurrection”. She added that the color of the candy cane did not matter. They are banned. Also banned are Christmas trees in classrooms and reindeer, among others.<\/p>\n

Acceptable (according to Ms. Sinclair)<\/h2>\n

Polar bears, sledding, gifts, gingerbread people (ahem…), and holidays of other people around the world are “acceptable.” Red and green colors, singing Christmas carols, etc. are not.<\/p>\n

She has been placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, about this time, there is a new story of someone who just can’t abide the American tradition and holiday called Christmas. Never mind, it’s been practiced for over 200 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[223,204,230,250,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}