{"id":801,"date":"2025-12-03T02:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=801"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:40:33","slug":"10-major-retail-stores-take-a-stand-to-say-merry-christmas-instead-of-happy-holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"10 Major Retail Stores Take A Stand To Say \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d Instead Of Happy Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/viralintime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/590348831_122229261116101580_3361701189773085744_n.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viralintime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/590348831_122229261116101580_3361701189773085744_n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viralintime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/590348831_122229261116101580_3361701189773085744_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"pb-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The backlash was loud, almost immediate, and it didn\u2019t take long for headlines to flare across social media and news outlets. Yet even louder than the noise of critics was the deafening silence of store clerks, many of whom had been trained to avoid mentioning Christmas altogether. For years, the traditional greeting of \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d seemed to vanish from the commercial landscape, replaced with a bland, carefully neutral \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d a phrase designed to avoid offending anyone. The shift was subtle at first\u2014small signs, muted displays, background music stripped of carols\u2014but over time, the absence became a presence of its own. Shoppers noticed. Communities noticed. And quietly, a cultural debate over words, faith, and tradition had taken root in the aisles of America\u2019s biggest stores.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backlash was loud, almost immediate, and it didn\u2019t take long for headlines to flare across social media and news outlets. Yet even louder than the noise of critics was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}