{"id":953,"date":"2006-12-22T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/22\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-mello\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T10:40:15","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-mello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/22\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-mello\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad, and the Mellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with the holiday season is that it just flies by so fast&#8211; it seems like you&#8217;ve barely finished clearing away the Thanksgiving dishes, and then you find that you&#8217;ve already missed <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=993\">Mellowmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t heard of that one? Well, it&#8217;s a new holiday invented by <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/\">jefitoblog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonhare.com\/\">Jason Hare<\/a>, explained by jefito thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the next twelve days, Jason and I will be having the mellowest listening party you ever did hear, and we&#8217;re going to do it yuletide style, bringing you the finest seasonal cuts from artists such as Air Supply, Glenn Medeiros, REO Speedwagon, and more. Just when you think we can&#8217;t get any mellower, we probably will. It&#8217;ll make you want to eat mistletoe until you die. (Lord knows that&#8217;s how I felt.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are twelve days in all, and the final installment was posted today: <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=994\">One<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/12\/the-second-day-of-mellowmas-air-supply-love-is-all\/\">Two<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=996\">Three<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/14\/the-fourth-day-of-mellowmas-bish\/\">Four<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=999\">Five<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/16\/the-sixth-day-of-mellowmas-a-horse-with-no\/\">Six<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=1001\">Seven<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/18\/the-eight-day-of-mellowmas-the-goldest-day\/\">Eight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=1003\">Nine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/20\/the-tenth-day-of-mellowmas-croach\/\">Ten<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=1007\">Eleven<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2006\/12\/22\/the-twelfth-and-final-day-of-mellowmas\/\">Twelve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They helpfully provide download and purchase links for all the songs they discuss, should you be so moved.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(This grew out of Jason Hare&#8217;s regular <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/category\/mellow-gold\/\">Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold<\/a> feature, which is worth a look in its own right&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with the holiday season is that it just flies by so fast&#8211; it seems like you&#8217;ve barely finished clearing away the Thanksgiving dishes, and then you find that you&#8217;ve already missed Mellowmas. Haven&#8217;t heard of that one? Well, it&#8217;s a new holiday invented by jefitoblog and Jason Hare, explained by jefito thusly: For&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/22\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-mello\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Good, the Bad, and the Mellow<\/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-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}