{"id":262217,"date":"2013-06-09T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=262217"},"modified":"2013-06-10T19:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T00:02:46","slug":"legislature-approved-merry-christmas-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=262217","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Approved &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Robert-Nichols.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Robert-Nichols-140x150.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Nichols\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-262292\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d won\u2019t be the only thing teachers and students can say to one another during winter celebrations. The Legislature has cleared the way for \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d and \u201cHappy Hanukkah.\u201d Senator Robert Nichols of Jacksonville says it\u2019s the right thing to do.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to Nichols, \u201cThis permissive bill is about granting schools permission to use traditional winter expressions and displays on school property consistent with Supreme Court precedent. Our school officials and teachers have enough on their plate without having to worry about frivolous lawsuits and retribution for recognizing Christmas and Hanukkah.\u201d The bill would require that if a symbol such as a Christmas tree is displayed, a second religion, or at least one secular scene or symbol, must also be displayed. The bill\u2019s now awaiting the governor\u2019s signature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d won\u2019t be the only thing teachers and students can say to one another during winter celebrations. The Legislature has cleared the way for \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d and \u201cHappy Hanukkah.\u201d Senator Robert Nichols of Jacksonville says it\u2019s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 06:23:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262415,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262217\/revisions\/262415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}