{"id":4402,"date":"2025-12-08T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:05:36","slug":"voila-comment-je-reponds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/voila-comment-je-reponds\/","title":{"rendered":"HERE&#8217;S HOW I RESPOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Christmas approaches, the neighbour, the pharmacist or the hairdresser tend to say,\u00a0<em>\u201cI wish you a happy holiday season.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In previous years, I used to respond,\u00a0<em>\u201cThank you, same to you!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, I\u2019ve decided to do something different. I reply with,&nbsp;<em>\u201cI wish you a happy holiday season as we celebrate Jesus\u2019 birthday!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;If it surprises them, it reminds them of the&nbsp;\u200bOne we celebrate as we come to the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other night, after a nice meal at a restaurant with my wife, I left a gospel of Mark with the waiter and said,&nbsp;<em>\u201cI wish you a happy holiday season as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;He&nbsp;\u200banswered,&nbsp;<em>\u201cI wish you a happy holiday season as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;( A reply not common at all in France!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if&nbsp;\u200bthat&#8217;s how&nbsp;we approached everyone we me\u200bet this month?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Timoth\u00e9e and Yukki\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<strong>The Weekly Update &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0December 8, 2025  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}