{"id":26544,"date":"2013-11-12T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=26544"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:26:40","slug":"thanksgiving-hanukkah-coincide-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/thanksgiving-hanukkah-coincide-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving, Hanukkah Coincide this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few\u00a0websites are highlighting the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/10\/29\/thanksgiving-hanukkah-converge-thanksgivukkah-first-time-since-1888\/\">Hanukkah aligns with the American Thanksgiving<\/a> this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It last happened in 1888 and, according to one calculation, won\u2019t happen again for another 77,798 years: the convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Nov. 28 is Thanksgiving and the first full day of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, which begins at sundown the previous night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jews in Green even provided some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsingreen.com\/2013\/10\/holiday-coloring-pages-for-kids\/\">coloring pages<\/a> for military kids that mixes the holiday references.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this is treated during <!--more-->the &#8220;holiday season&#8221; in the US military this year. Christmas and Hanukkah are &#8220;traditionally&#8221; so close together that nativity scenes are normally accompanied by Menorahs in public displays during December. (One military atheist, though, claimed the inclusion of a Menorah was merely a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/military-atheists-join-contradict-fight-against-travis-afb-nativity\/\">&#8220;token&#8221; inclusion<\/a> to try to hide illegal Christian activity.)<\/p>\n<p>Will Menorahs come out on military bases around Thanksgiving this year, or will they only come out of storage with the Christmas trees in December?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few\u00a0websites are highlighting the fact that Hanukkah aligns with the American Thanksgiving this year: It last happened in 1888 and, according to one calculation, won\u2019t happen again for another 77,798 years: the convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. This year, Nov. 28 is Thanksgiving and the first full day of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, which begins at sundown [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20,96,108,1194,39,1055,1193,2,10,171,103],"class_list":["post-26544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-atheism","tag-christian","tag-christmas","tag-hanukkah","tag-jewish","tag-justin-griffith","tag-menorah","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}