{"id":260,"date":"2024-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=260"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:03:15","slug":"25-december-2011-christmas-or-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/12\/01\/25-december-2011-christmas-or-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"25 December, 2024: Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Christmas-at-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-269\" title=\"Christmas at home\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Christmas-at-home-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Christmas<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>Christmas Day<\/strong> (<a title=\"Old English language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_English_language\">Old English<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Cr\u012bstesm\u00e6sse<\/em>, literally &#8220;<a title=\"Christ\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christ\">Christ<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a title=\"Mass (liturgy)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_(liturgy)\">mass<\/a>&#8220;) is an annual commemoration of\u00a0<a title=\"Nativity of Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nativity_of_Jesus\">the birth<\/a> of\u00a0<a title=\"Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesus\">Jesus<\/a> <a title=\"Christ\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christ\">Christ<\/a>,\u00a0celebrated generally on\u00a0<a title=\"December 25\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/December_25\">December 25<\/a> as a\u00a0<a title=\"Religious festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_festival\">religious<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"Cultural Christian\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_Christian\">cultural<\/a> <a title=\"Holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday\">holiday<\/a> by billions of people\u00a0<a title=\"Christmas worldwide\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_worldwide\">around the world<\/a>. \u00a0A\u00a0<a title=\"Feast day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feast_day\">feast<\/a> central to the\u00a0<a title=\"Christianity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity\">Christian<\/a> <a title=\"Liturgical year\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liturgical_year\">liturgical year<\/a>, it closes the\u00a0<a title=\"Advent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advent\">Advent<\/a> season and initiates the\u00a0<a title=\"Twelve Days of Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas\">twelve days<\/a> of\u00a0<a title=\"Christmastide\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmastide\">Christmastide<\/a>. Christmas is a\u00a0<a title=\"Public holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holiday\">civil holiday<\/a> in\u00a0<a title=\"List of holidays by country\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_holidays_by_country\">many of the world&#8217;s nations<\/a>,\u00a0is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,\u00a0and is an integral part of the\u00a0<a title=\"Christmas and holiday season\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_and_holiday_season\">Christmas and holiday season<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas or\u00a0Christmas Day (Old English:\u00a0Cr\u012bstesm\u00e6sse, literally &#8220;Christ&#8216;s\u00a0mass&#8220;) is an annual commemoration of\u00a0the birth of\u00a0Jesus Christ,\u00a0celebrated generally on\u00a0December 25 as a\u00a0religious and\u00a0cultural holiday by billions of people\u00a0around the world. \u00a0A\u00a0feast central to the\u00a0Christian liturgical year, it closes the\u00a0Advent season and initiates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/12\/01\/25-december-2011-christmas-or-christmas-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}