{"quotes":[{"text":"We are soon approaching a refined holiday, 'Merry Mas,' where Christ will be taken out of its context.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["america","anti-god","antichrist","changes","christianity","christmas","complainers","generation","government","holiday","jesus","liberty","meaning-of-life","merry-christmas","religion","society"],"id":297,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels,” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["age","holiday"],"id":1610,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["holiday","you","break "],"id":4710,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["employment","hardworking","holiday","rest","work"],"id":6525,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["adventure","camping","escape","freedom","holiday","outdoors"],"id":6725,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.","author":"Monica Johnson","tags":["family","friends","holiday "],"id":10988,"author_id":"Monica+Johnson"},{"text":"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.","author":"John Clayton","tags":["thanksgiving","holiday "],"id":15036,"author_id":"John+Clayton"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.","author":"Evelyn Glennie","tags":["holiday","practice","special "],"id":22751,"author_id":"Evelyn+Glennie"},{"text":"I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person... It doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.","author":"Tom Goodman-Hill","tags":["holiday","know","think "],"id":28229,"author_id":"Tom+Goodman-Hill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":113,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}