{"id":9782,"date":"2005-12-25T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-2\/"},"modified":"2005-12-25T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T14:15:23","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>One of the good things I carried out of living in Cyprus is Christmas celebration.  I came to realize that it&#8217;s not a religios holiday of any sort.  It&#8217;s just a date for a major celebrations.  Some people prefer to have family dinners, others go to pubs, yet others ignore it all together.  But the scale of the holiday is so huge that the spirit is in the air, and neither you, neither me, nor anyone else can do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>To all of you who appreciate the holiday &#8211; Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>To all those of you who don&#8217;t &#8211; you lose!  <\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays either way.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>One of the good things I carried out of living in Cyprus is Christmas celebration. I came to realize that it&#8217;s not a religios holiday of any sort. It&#8217;s just a date for a major celebrations. Some people prefer to have family dinners, others go to pubs, yet others ignore it all together. But the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[438,2601,437],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-celebrations","tag-christmas","tag-holidays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19045,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/25\/merry-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The old fat man dressed in red, with a long white beard just visited my home. \u00a0He said that I was mostly good this year, and left a whole bag of presents. \u00a0He only had a few moments to spare, so we served him with a ginger beer and a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Merry Christmas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Merry-Christmas-500x500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11019,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/14\/christmas-season-and-blog-stats\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":1},"title":"Christmas season and blog stats","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 14, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know exactly how all those online shops do during the Christmas seasons (probably they are blooming), but I can show you what two weeks or so of Christmas and New Year's holidays can do to one's blog statistics.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a screenshot of weekly stats for my blog:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25097,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/07\/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":2},"title":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today Russia and a few other countries celebrate Christmas, so I'd like to take this chance to wish Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone still in the holiday mood. I usually take the time around these days to review the year gone and to make a wishlist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12084,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/06\/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":3},"title":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Better late, than never they say. \u00a0I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year! I totally missed the appropriate time for New Year resolutions and forecasts, so I won't bother much. \u00a0But in brief, the year 2009 and was good to me.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16051,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/31\/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-2012-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":4},"title":"Merry Christmas and a Happy New 2012 Year!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we are, in the last hours of the 2011. \u00a0Those of us who celebrate the New Year holiday are either taking a quick nap, getting ready for the night of partying or getting ready to receive guests, cooking in the kitchens, calling relatives, cleaning the house, and starting to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9787,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/26\/more-on-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":9782,"position":5},"title":"More on Christmas","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is more about Christmas, since I'm still in the spirit. One of the cool things about living in a mutlicultural environment (like Cyprus) is that you can enjoy the best of all worlds. 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