{"id":7770,"date":"2014-12-23T19:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T02:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2014-12-23T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T02:11:39","slug":"12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/23\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-11\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Posts of Christmas, 2014 (Day 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One hundred years ago this Christmas, came one of the most miraculous events in the history of warfare: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_truce\" target=\"_blank\">The Christmas Truce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While there had been &#8220;truces&#8221; ranging from passive inactivity to the occasional fraternization, Christmas ushered in a day when both sides on the Western front (and to a lesser degree the Eastern Front), without official sanction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From singing Christmas carols, to exchanging gifts, to even playing a no-mans-land version of Soccer (Football) matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7771\" title=\"christmas-truce-football\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-truce-football.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-truce-football.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-truce-football-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>In pace requiescat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The previous \u201cPosts of Christmas\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Snow is not just frozen water, but beautiful crystal structures of near infinite variety\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/13\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 1<\/a> \u2013 Snow is not just frozen water, but beautiful crystal structures of near infinite variety<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Christmas In The Roaring Twenties\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/14\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 2<\/a> \u2013 Christmas In The Roaring Twenties<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Christopher Lee wishes us all a HEAVY Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/15\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 3<\/a> \u2013 Christopher Lee wishes us all a <strong>HEAVY<\/strong> Christmas<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Christmas in Las Vegas\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/16\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 4<\/a> \u2013 Christmas in Las Vegas<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Girls und Panzer Abridged: The Christmas Special\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/17\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 5<\/a> \u2013  Girls und Panzer Abridged: The Christmas Special.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Ertha Kitt performs 'Santa Baby.'\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/18\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 6<\/a> \u2013  Ertha Kitt performs \u201cSanta Baby.\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Were you naughty... or nice?.'\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/19\/12-posts-of-ch\u2026mas-2014-day-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 7<\/a> \u2013  Were you naughty&#8230; or nice?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"'The Grinch' as performed by 16 Second Stare'\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/20\/12-posts-of-ch\u2026mas-2014-day-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 8<\/a> \u2013  &#8220;The Grinch&#8221; as performed by <em>16 Second Stare<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"'The Bells of Christmas' by Loreena McKennitt'\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/21\/12-posts-of-ch\u2026mas-2014-day-9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 9<\/a> \u2013  &#8220;The Bells of Christmas&#8221; from Loreena McKennitt.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"A little Christmas message for our enemies around the world.\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/22\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Day 10<\/a> \u2013  A little Christmas message for our enemies around the world.<\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"12 Posts of Christmas, 2014 (Day 11)\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"One hundred years ago this Christmas, came one of the most miraculous events in the history of warfare: The Christmas Truce.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-truce-football.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One hundred years ago this Christmas, came one of the most miraculous events in the history of warfare: The Christmas Truce. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While there had been &#8220;truces&#8221; ranging from passive inactivity to the occasional fraternization, Christmas ushered in a day when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/12\/23\/12-posts-of-christmas-2014-day-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[40,9],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-war-terror","tag-christmas","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}