{"id":1663,"date":"2008-12-09T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2008-12-09T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T12:27:54","slug":"putting-the-google-back-in-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/putting-the-google-back-in-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Google back in Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"picture-27\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"407\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"remote_16777216\">Google has decided to, well&#8230; put Google back into Christmas. Maps Guide Jade <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/google-maps-current-issues\/t\/5f2973822ad366e?hl=en\">posted<\/a> in the Google Maps support groups announcing Google Map&#8217;s &#8220;collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/holidays\">Google Maps Holiday Solutions<\/a> to\u00a0help get you through the holidays with ease&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p> After having just returned from a visit with my in-laws I got a particular chuckle from the idea I might want to &#8220;find the best restaurant in town to impress your in-laws&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In our  neck of the woods, Christians take out billboards suggesting that Christ be put back in Christmas (despite the historical irony that Christians didn&#8217;t actually start this particular seasonal holiday). Given Google&#8217;s new financial realities, perhaps Google should target them and suggest an adwords campaign instead of the billboard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has decided to, well&#8230; put Google back into Christmas. Maps Guide Jade posted in the Google Maps support groups announcing Google Map&#8217;s &#8220;collection of Google Maps Holiday Solutions to\u00a0help get you through the holidays with ease&#8221;. After having just returned from a visit with my in-laws I got a particular chuckle from the idea &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}