{"id":1285,"date":"2008-12-25T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:52:30","slug":"its-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/25\/its-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas to me is just another day off, its significance nowhere near that of New Year&#8217;s Eve.  But I do enjoy the musical component of the holidays, with all those <em>Winter Wonderland<\/em>, <em>Let It Snow<\/em>, and <em>Jingle Bells<\/em> songs constantly on air.  Hell, I sing along to <em>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em> every time I hear it.<\/p>\n<p>But growing up where I did, Christmas-themed songs were not in frequent circulation.  Which is why it&#8217;s a little wonder that the melody I find most often stuck in my head during the season is the following ditty by <em>Modern Talking<\/em>, definitely the very first song with the word &#8220;Christmas&#8221; in it that I became aware of in my youth.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are so stupendously daft, it&#8217;s not even funny, but the melody is quite nice.  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But I do enjoy the musical component of the holidays, with all those Winter Wonderland, Let It Snow, and Jingle Bells songs constantly on air. Hell, I sing along to Rudolph the Red-Nosed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/burlaki.com\/thumbnails\/notes2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"It&#8217;s Christmas","_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfS5R-kJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/burlaki.com\/thumbnails\/notes2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13608,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/13608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}