{"id":16371,"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/absurd-christmas-less-flags-removed-following-complaint\/"},"modified":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"absurd-christmas-less-flags-removed-following-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/absurd-christmas-less-flags-removed-following-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Christmas-less flags removed following complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Photo |&nbsp;John Grainger | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/christmas-banners-without-the-cword-have-been-torn-down-after-a-minister-intervened\/news-story\/0f58dd2fb568df44be5e3cf67de918dd?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=DailyTelegraph&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3>Nonsensical banners displaying the words \u201cVery Merry\u201d but leaving off the word Christmas have been taken down in Sydney.<\/h3>\n<p>The bizarre flags were removed on the order of NSW Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery Merry means absolutely nothing to anyone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/Nonsensical banners displaying the words \u201cVery Merry\u201d but leaving off the word Christmas have been taken down in Sydney.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr Perrottet told The Daily Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you leave out the one word that matters, all you\u2019re left with is a vacuous, bland platitude. It\u2019s nonsense \u2014 but it\u2019s an easy fix, and it turns out we didn\u2019t even need a focus group to get the message right. I know it\u2019s a bit out there but we\u2019re going with \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flags were set to be replaced on Friday by a new version wishing passers-by a \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Minster stepped in following a complaint from a taxpayer that read: \u201cStop spending my money denying an Australian (and world) celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/alan-hickey\/daughter-sings-touching-tribute-to-alan-hickey-ahead-of-his-cancer-treatment\"><strong>DAUGHTER SINGS TOUCHING TRIBUTE AS ALAN HICKEY STEPS ASIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/speculation-builds-around-adelaide-united-coach\"><strong>SPECULATION BUILDS AROUND ADELAIDE UNITED COACH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo |&nbsp;John Grainger | The Daily Telegraph Nonsensical banners displaying the words \u201cVery Merry\u201d but leaving off the word Christmas have been taken down in Sydney. The bizarre flags were removed on the order of NSW Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet. \u201cVery Merry means absolutely nothing to anyone,\u201d Mr Perrottet told The Daily Telegraph. \u201cWhen you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Absurd Christmas-less flags removed following complaint - FIVEAA<\/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:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/absurd-christmas-less-flags-removed-following-complaint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Absurd Christmas-less flags removed following complaint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo |&nbsp;John Grainger | The Daily Telegraph Nonsensical banners displaying the words \u201cVery Merry\u201d but leaving off the word Christmas have been taken down in Sydney. 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