{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\u2022 Christ is born and HE is savior! (Levant, 00-100)\n\u2022 The day of his birth is a holiday called Christmas (Rome, 300s)\n\u2022 Nicholas...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/179611418943/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/179610043838/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 Christ is born and HE is savior! (Levant, 00-100)</p>\n<p>\u2022 The day of his birth is a holiday called Christmas (Rome, 300s)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Nicholas is sainted in his name (Anatolia, 400-500)</p>\n<p>\u2022 St. Nicholas is \u201cSanta Claus\u201d, bringer of presents! (Dutch-American legend, NYC, USA, early 19th cen.)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Santa Claus fills stockings riding a sleigh pulled by 8 reindeer (Clement Clarke Moore, USA, 1823)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Christmas is a day where capitalist magnates are inspired away from profit-maximization by popular sentiment (Charles Dickens, London, UK, 1843)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Christmas is a holiday where you erect a lit pine tree and trade store-bought presents (mid-late 19th cen., German lands)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Santa Claus wears a red cap and suit (Coca-Cola and others, USA, 1930s)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Santa has a 9th reindeer, a pathetic runt named Rudolph (Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward, Chicago, USA, 1939)</p>\n<p>\u2022 Christmas is a day where people erect evergreen trees and exchange presents but a fuzzy green monster representing capitalism wears a red suit and teams with an ersatz runt reindeer to undermine it, but popular sentiment inspires him away (Theodore Geisel as \u201cDr. Seuss\u201d, La Jolla California, USA, 1957)</p>\n<p>Cultural evolution!</p>\n</blockquote><p>Meanwhile in half a century the other thread born from A Christmas Story and Die Hard and It\u2019s A Wonderful Life and Home Alone becomes a story of a boy alienated from his parents because they don\u2019t trust him with a gun pulling it together to kill invaders but also realize his life is richer putting up with them than it would be without</p>"}