{"id":42,"date":"2007-12-30T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2007\/12\/30\/merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:02:19","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/2007\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">H<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">a<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">p<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">p<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">y<\/span><\/font> <font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">H<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">o<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">l<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">i<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">d<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">a<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">y<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"style3\">s<\/span><\/font><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">!<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our sincerest wishes and hopes to all of our families, friends and visitors for a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! We appreciate all of your support and prayers. We hope this special season brings you peace, joy and everything you need, and even most of what you want:-) [No good Irishman would wish you everything you want, because that would leave you with nothing left to hope for.]<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the upcoming year&#8230;<br \/>\nA lot of exciting changes are occurring throughout the <a href=\"http:\/\/stpatricksday.com\/\">StPatricksDay.com<\/a><small><small>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/small><\/small> family of sites, and this blog serves to highlight just a few. First and foremost, the long awaited release of the new and improved <font color=\"#008000\">StPatricksDay.com<\/font> will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The addition of a new shopping section with Irish clothes, music, DVDs, jewlery, books, and more;<\/li>\n<li>FREE Downloads including OVER 2,000 FREE ONLINE Games and custom MySpace backgrounds;<\/li>\n<li>A brand new Events Database to help you promote or learn about all the coolest Block Parties, Pub Crawls, Parades, Festivals, and other events going on in your local neighborhood and around the World;<\/li>\n<li>A completely redesigned user interface to help you better access all your favorite Irish Toasts, Travel deals, Shopping, News Sources, and Social Events;<\/li>\n<li>AND, MUCH, MUCH MORE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/OfficialGear\/\"><font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style6\">StPatricksDay.com Official Gear<small><small>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/small><\/small><\/span><\/font><\/a> is NOW AVAILABLE for purchase online. Read about the legends that inspired our famous custom &#8220;<font color=\"#0000ff\">Irish Karate<\/font><small><small>\u00c2\u00a9<\/small><\/small>,&#8221; &#8220;<font color=\"#0000ff\">IRISHINYA?<\/font><small><small>\u00c2\u00a9<\/small><\/small>,&#8221; &#8220;<font color=\"#0000ff\">Holy Shamrock<\/font><small><small>\u00c2\u00a9<\/small><\/small>,&#8221; &#8220;<font color=\"#0000ff\">Irish Cougar Hunter<\/font><small><small>\u00c2\u00a9<\/small><\/small>,&#8221; and <font color=\"#0000ff\">other great t-shirts<\/font>. Make sure to order one today for yourself, friends, and family.Finally, StPatricksDay.com<small><small>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/small><\/small> would like to announce its official co-sponsorship of<font color=\"#ff0000\"> <span class=\"style3\"><strong>Shamrockfest 2008<\/strong><\/span><\/font>. This event promises to be the biggest StPatricksDay event in the Washington, DC area, and will include a &#8220;Pub Games&#8221; festival area located in the <font color=\"#00bf00\"><span class=\"style10\">StPatricksDay.com Village<\/span><\/font>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>SHAMROCKFEST 2008<\/strong><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ff0000\"><span class=\"EC_style198\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shamrockfest.com\/buytickets.html\"><blink><span class=\"style3\">TICKETS ON SALE NOW!<\/span><\/blink><\/a><\/span><\/font><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shamrockfest.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/shamrockfest.com\/images\/photos\/photobanner_600x399.GIF\" alt=\"ShamrockFest 2008\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJUST 80-DAYS AWAY!<br \/>\nTHE HOTTEST SPRING FESTIVAL IN AMERICA!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Take advantage of the early-bird pricing! With over <font color=\"#0000ff\">40 bands, DJs &amp; performances<\/font> this will be the most amazing entertainment lineup in Shamrock history!<\/p>\n<p>For full ShamrockFest details, or to buy tickets click here <font color=\"#0000ff\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shamrockfest.com\/buytickets.html\">www.Shamrockfest.com<\/a> <\/font><br \/>\nCheck back often as we will be continually announcing acts over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>All of us at StPatricksDay.com extend our sincerest appreciation for your support, and we promise to continue to earn it by bringing you the best in Irish-themed content coming your way in the New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Best Wishes and Happy Holidays,<\/p>\n<p>StPatricksDay.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Holidays! Our sincerest wishes and hopes to all of our families, friends and visitors for a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! We appreciate all of your support and prayers. We hope this special season brings you peace, joy and everything you need, and even most of what you want:-) [No good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-americans","category-irish-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irishbeat.com\/thecraic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}