{"id":2041,"date":"2007-12-06T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T10:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/annual-request-christmas-songs\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T10:40:45","slug":"annual-request-christmas-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/annual-request-christmas-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Request: Christmas Songs That Don&#8217;t Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the department secretary switching over to the all-Christmas-songs station, and Jason Hare and Jeff Giles celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2007\/11\/28\/mellowmas-approacheth\/\">holiday tunes that bring the suck<\/a>, it seems like a good time to re-ask the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/the_christmas_tunes_experiment.php\">eternal question<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Are there Christmas songs that can hold their own against &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, more to the point, name me some holiday-themed songs that <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> suck. I got the list up to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/christmas_songs_that_dont_suck.php\">21 songs<\/a> last year, thanks in large part to Jeff Giles&#8217;s now-vanished jefitoblog, but it would be nice to expand that, if suitable songs can be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the department secretary switching over to the all-Christmas-songs station, and Jason Hare and Jeff Giles celebrating holiday tunes that bring the suck, it seems like a good time to re-ask the eternal question: Are there Christmas songs that can hold their own against &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;? Or, more to the point, name me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/annual-request-christmas-songs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annual Request: Christmas Songs That Don&#8217;t Suck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}