{"id":70,"date":"2011-12-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-01-04T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:48:00","slug":"a-charlie-brown-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/a-charlie-brown-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charlie Brown Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate!<\/p>\n<p>Today is Christmas Day.\u00a0 Christmas is a Christian religious holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This holiday is observed by many American, as well as Christians around the world.\u00a0 In the United States, Christmas is a national holiday which means all federal and state offices and many businesses are closed (i.e. post offices, banks, retail stores).\u00a0 People often enjoy spending this holiday (and time off) with family and friends as well as attending religious services that take place in churches either on <em>Christmas Eve*<\/em> or Christmas Day.\u00a0 Christmas celebrations in the United States generally include the opening of presents from under the Christmas tree, visiting with family, and a large <em>feast**<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine many of you already know about the holiday of Christmas, but I am going to share with you classic Christmas holiday video &#8216;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8217; that explains this holiday to you in English.<\/p>\n<p>The movie &#8216;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8217; is a famous and often favorite holiday movie in the United States.\u00a0 This video was a prime-time animated TV special that first showed on TV in 1965 and it has been <em>aired***<\/em> every year since then!\u00a0 In this video the Peanuts <em>gang****<\/em> put on a Christmas play that Charlie Brown directs.\u00a0 One of the major themes of the video is the <em>over commercialization\u00a0of Christmas<\/em>***** which upsets Charlie Brown.\u00a0\u00a0 If you have never seen this video you might really enjoy it!\u00a0 The English that is spoken in the video is not too fast paced and is generally clear and easy to understand.\u00a0 Here is one of the more famous scenes from the movie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Real Meaning of Christmas\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NYexxEAl8Io?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* the night before Christmas<\/p>\n<p>** big meal<\/p>\n<p>***shown on TV<\/p>\n<p>**** group of friends<\/p>\n<p>***** the making of Christmas more about presents and money, rather than about the religious holiday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! Today is Christmas Day.\u00a0 Christmas is a Christian religious holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This holiday is observed by many American, as well as Christians around the world.\u00a0 In the United States, Christmas is a national holiday which means all federal and state offices and many&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/a-charlie-brown-christmas\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}