{"id":789,"date":"2023-03-29T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-cancelling-christmas-reignited-a-civil-war-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:44:48","slug":"how-cancelling-christmas-reignited-a-civil-war-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-cancelling-christmas-reignited-a-civil-war-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#39;cancelling&#39; Christmas reignited a civil war &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eikHQyUN0qw?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>As governments around the world weigh up how much to restrict Christmas celebrations again in an effort to combat the pandemic, it&#8217;s worth noting this isn&#8217;t the first time in history that politicians have tried to exercise control over the seasonal festivities.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1640s, the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland effectively made many long-held Christmas traditions illegal, and it went down about as well as you might imagine &#8211; ultimately helping to reignite the English Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Dan John#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eikHQyUN0qw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As governments around the world weigh up how much to restrict Christmas celebrations again in an effort to combat the pandemic, it&#8217;s worth noting this isn&#8217;t the first time in history that politicians have tried to exercise control over the seasonal festivities. In the 1640s, the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland effectively made many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}