{"id":1400702,"date":"2020-12-23T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1400702"},"modified":"2020-12-23T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:34:37","slug":"5-disturbing-morals-of-popular-christmas-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-disturbing-morals-of-popular-christmas-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Bizarre Morals of Popular Christmas Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/dec13worstxmasmorals2_Slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year\u2014time once again to learn the true meaning of Christmas by watching&nbsp;<em>Elf<\/em>&nbsp;every day for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get a lot of our morals from holiday movies, songs, and stories. They teach us to be kind, selfless, and giving. Or at least, some of them do. Others impart bonkers, off-the-wall messages&nbsp;that will surely lead society to ruin. Here are just five classic holiday stories with sinister takeaways&nbsp;masquerading as \u201clife lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year\u2014time once again to learn the true meaning of Christmas by watching&nbsp;Elf&nbsp;every day for a month. We get a lot of our morals from holiday movies, songs, and stories. They teach   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[24392,628,2335,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400702"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446077,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400702\/revisions\/1446077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}