{"id":10211,"date":"2014-01-07T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=10211"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:03:43","slug":"christmas-season-lasts-until-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=10211","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Season Lasts Until *When*?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in our marriage, my husband determined that the time to put up the Christmas Tree was not until the day after Thanksgiving (no leap-frogging the holidays!) &#8212; and all the decorations came down sometime within the next week, for certain by January 1st or 2nd. \u00a0Those were the days when, though we were aware of Advent, as Paul was raised Lutheran and I had been Anglican when we married, we didn&#8217;t really focus on the liturgical calendar too much, and were basically just attuned to the American cultural practice regarding the Christmas season being roughly a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Now since we&#8217;ve been Catholic, however,\u00a0I have been extremely happy to trumpet long and loud the fantastic news that after the four weeks of Advent, Christmas Season *begins* on Christmas Day, and continues all the way to Epiphany on January 6th &#8212; thus allowing me to extend the &#8220;Sparkly Season&#8221; a little longer. \u00a0I do adore having sparklies in my world! \u00a0I don&#8217;t have much in the way of &#8220;Christmas decor&#8221; &#8211; but the lights really do make me very happy indeed.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;ve come down to the &#8220;end&#8221; of my season, and the tree should be taken down today &#8212; except that NOW I&#8217;m hearing that there&#8217;s yet ANOTHER end-date to Christmas to consider.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Thus, my dilemma, and I am asking for opinions on this one: \u00a0What is the really, truly, officially CATHOLIC Christmas Season? \u00a0I want to do this RIGHT! Lol!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>December 25 &#8211; January 1st (the octave of Christmas, ending with the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>December 25 &#8211; January 6th (the 12 days of Christmas, ending with the Epiphany)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>December 25 &#8211; February 2nd (40 day celebration, ending with the Presentation)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just to be on the safe side, we&#8217;re leaving that Christmas tree up until I figure it out! \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0(In other words, take your time sending in your votes! \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in our marriage, my husband determined that the time to put up the Christmas Tree was not until the day after Thanksgiving (no leap-frogging the holidays!) &#8212; and all the decorations came down sometime within the next week, for certain by January 1st or 2nd. \u00a0Those were the days when, though we were aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,86,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic","category-christmas","category-netties-world","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10213,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions\/10213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}