{"id":1087,"date":"2021-11-30T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:18:28","slug":"the-x-in-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-x-in-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;X&#8221; in &#8220;Xmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article explains that the &#8220;X&#8221; in &#8220;Xmas&#8221; actually has a fascinating history even though the word XMas is commonly associated with trends towards materialism in advertisements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dictionary.com\/xmas-christogram\/\">http:\/\/blog.dictionary.com\/xmas-christogram\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was first used in the 1500&#8217;s. The Greek letter, &#8220;X&#8221; is actually chi, which means Christ. &#8220;mas&#8221; is the Old English word for &#8220;mass&#8221;, a church service. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains that the &#8220;X&#8221; in &#8220;Xmas&#8221; actually has a fascinating history even though the word XMas is commonly associated with trends towards materialism in advertisements. http:\/\/blog.dictionary.com\/xmas-christogram\/ It was first used in the 1500&#8217;s. The Greek letter, &#8220;X&#8221; is actually chi, which means Christ. &#8220;mas&#8221; is the Old English word for &#8220;mass&#8221;, a church&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-x-in-xmas\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}