{"id":235332,"date":"2026-04-04T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:38:06","slug":"some-christians-concerned-about-official-houston-spring-holiday-wish-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235332\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Christians Concerned About Official Houston &#8220;Spring Holiday&#8221; Wish | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston&#8217;s mayor has raised concern about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWocJjeid5G\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an Instagram post<\/a> in which he referred to Good Friday as a Spring Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday is of course related to Easter Sunday, and that&#8217;s a &#8220;time when Christians across the nation reflect on the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The City of Houston should be ashamed,&#8221; Richmond-area US Representative Troy Nels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/city-houston-called-good-friday-193914107.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHMq2jDeF_-NJVvd4kKxlxA3AYcVWKgGcWga1u4kPImD0-AtrPW_S-a4oA1J6esdst0PDFYnsmxvfj4UjKg9p3XTkjwcADpnGGGdcVG1JO64K1GehqbJ48K3oQCdF4FgHEEJPnHsi2FHJkDuh8UMI-KElgMpbehOn2YDejz-Yc5H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Houston Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Whitmire&#8217;s identical post on X has been deleted after concerns raised by Rep. Nels, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toddstarnes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NewsMax host Todd Starne<\/a>s and others<\/p>\n<p>The mayor&#8217;s office also provided greetings for celebration of Passover, which began Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s mayor has raised concern about an Instagram post in which he referred to Good Friday as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-235332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}