{"id":76,"date":"2004-11-29T03:13:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T08:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=76"},"modified":"2004-11-29T03:13:32","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T08:13:32","slug":"its-beginning-to-sound-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/11\/29\/its-beginning-to-sound-like-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; It&#8217;s beginning to sound like Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the stores have been pushing for the season and many houses are already healthily donating loads of cash to the local power utility, the airwaves actually have a nice &#8216;ring&#8217; to them.  I am actually enjoying the Christmas related tunes that are in heavy rotation for the next month.  I have even searched for the station that is dedicating themselves to holiday songs this year.  Crazy.  <\/p>\n<p>  Maybe it&#8217;s the deluge of the same ol&#8217; songs over and over again on every format that currently exists.  Sure, they&#8217;ll hammer the limited amount of decent holiday music into the ground as well, but it&#8217;s only for a month and it gets you in the groove for the festivities associated with the tunes.<\/p>\n<p>  As for favorites, I&#8217;m not real picky, but the more traditional and better known ones appeal to me more.  But Garth Brooks&#8217; ~ &#8216;<i>Daddy looked alot like Santa <\/i>&#8216; is a fun one as well.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to: White Christmas &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsmedia.com\/mg\/search.asp?srch=Otis+Redding\">Otis Redding<\/a> &#8211; Soul Christmas (3:09)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the stores have been pushing for the season and many houses are already healthily donating loads of cash to the local power utility, the airwaves actually have a nice &#8216;ring&#8217; to them. I am actually enjoying the Christmas related tunes that are in heavy rotation for the next month. I have even searched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}