{"id":9787,"date":"2005-12-26T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/26\/more-on-christmas\/"},"modified":"2005-12-26T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T15:00:33","slug":"more-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/26\/more-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is more about Christmas, since I&#8217;m still in the spirit.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cool things about living in a mutlicultural environment (like Cyprus) is that you can enjoy the best of all worlds.  Originally, we were celebrating only the New Year with Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus) being the main character of the holiday.  But now we enjoy Christmas too.  And we get more presents from Santa Claus and Agios Vasilis (Greek Santa Claus).  <\/p>\n<p>The definition of &#8220;begin good all year&#8221; can also be interpreted in different ways, which pretty much guarantees presents from at least one of the three magical Christmas grandpas&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is more about Christmas, since I&#8217;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. Originally, we were celebrating only the New Year with Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus) being the main character of the holiday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/26\/more-on-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on 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":[2601,437,928],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-christmas","tag-holidays","tag-presents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9786,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/25\/more-content-is-coming\/","url_meta":{"origin":9787,"position":0},"title":"More content is coming&#8230;","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Olga was very good this year and Santa Claus gave her a camcorder for Christmas. 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