{"id":1153,"date":"2008-12-09T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:15:47","slug":"oh-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Oh Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3096741338\/pc090047jpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3293\/3096741338_5150d90010.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"PC090047.JPG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A tree being air tortured and humiliated on top of a Smart Car<\/p>\n<p>10 million trees will be sacrificed this year to celebrate Christmas.<br \/>\nIt is not acceptable to kill trees to celebrate a god.<br \/>\n-We no longer sacrifice humans to the gods<br \/>\n-We no longer sacrifice animals to the gods<br \/>\n&#8211; And yet we still sacrifice trees.<br \/>\nAnd we don&#8217;t just kill the trees we actually torture them. We hang things on them and keep them barely alive as if to humiliate them.<br \/>\n-It is time to stop the torture and slaughter of trees.<\/p>\n<p>I have started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> Group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=53865455389\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this has crossed the line into insulting PETA members or Christians I apologize.\u00a0 All I can say is I&#8217;m doing it for the young trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tree being air tortured and humiliated on top of a Smart Car 10 million trees will be sacrificed this year to celebrate Christmas. It is not acceptable to kill trees to celebrate a god. -We no longer sacrifice humans to the gods -We no longer sacrifice animals to the gods &#8211; And yet we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}