{"id":156,"date":"2006-12-01T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/01\/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T16:31:44","slug":"the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one of those people who gets all depressed and weird about Christmas.\u00a0 In fact, I make a pretty, um, religious point of keeping me and the kids focused on what the season is about; its religious roots, the fun of being together with one&#8217;s family, just plain being happy.\u00a0 With kudos to Dennis Prager, it&#8217;s actually something I got from an old Hungarian saying &#8211; &#8220;the best way to become wealthy is to appear that you already are&#8221; &#8211; probably a decade or two before I ever heard Dennis Prager.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Christmas is close to the perfect season.\u00a0 I love it.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;there are a few Chrsitmas songs that simplly have to go.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I can&#8217;t think of a single traditional Christmas song that I don&#8217;t like.\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s the pop-oriented Christmas songs of the last fifty years that truly sap that holiday cheer from my soul.<\/p>\n<p>The worst offenders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Jingle Bell Rock<\/em>: Every version.\u00a0 But especially Wayne Newton.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sleigh Ride<\/em>, by some schlock lounge singer of the fifties and sixties.\u00a0 Not sure which one &#8211; it&#8217;s the one where the singer sings &#8220;&#8230;our freinds are calling YEEEEE-HOOO!&#8221;.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a spirit killer right there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More as I remember them &#8211; not that I&#8217;ll be trying that hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one of those people who gets all depressed and weird about Christmas.\u00a0 In fact, I make a pretty, um, religious point of keeping me and the kids focused on what the season is about; its religious roots, the fun of being together with one&#8217;s family, just plain being happy.\u00a0 With kudos to Dennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}