{"id":11,"date":"2007-11-28T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/decemberdilemma\/2007\/11\/where-the-dickens-is-christmas.html"},"modified":"2007-11-28T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:15:46","slug":"where-the-dickens-is-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/decemberdilemma\/2007\/11\/where-the-dickens-is-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"Where the Dickens is Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Saginaw, Michigan this week, the annual Dickens Christmas Festival was re-named the Dickens Holiday Festival.  The name change came because festival organizers face a dwindling advertising budget, and removing &#8220;Christmas&#8221; from the name allows them to advertise in public schools.<br \/>\nDowntown Development board member Kriss Roethleisberger told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnem.com\/news\/14706299\/detail.html\">WNEM News<\/a> that the new nomenclature does not mean that other Christmas-related aspects of the festival will be secularized. \u201cThe spirit of the event has not changed,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;We have the live Nativity, the lighted Christmas parade, the community Christmas sing. It was simply that on one piece of marketing material we had the use the word \u2018holiday.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Saginaw, Michigan this week, the annual Dickens Christmas Festival was re-named the Dickens Holiday Festival. The name change came because festival organizers face a dwindling advertising budget, and removing &#8220;Christmas&#8221; from the name allows them to advertise in public schools. Downtown Development board member Kriss Roethleisberger told WNEM News that the new nomenclature does&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where the Dickens is Christmas? - December Dilemma Watch 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/decemberdilemma\/2007\/11\/where-the-dickens-is-christmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where the Dickens is Christmas? - December Dilemma Watch 2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Saginaw, Michigan this week, the annual Dickens Christmas Festival was re-named the Dickens Holiday Festival. 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