{"id":3659,"date":"2009-12-25T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T23:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2010-01-04T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T14:20:08","slug":"christmas-various","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3659","title":{"rendered":"Christmas various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unreality.net\/weblog\/images\/D8xhW.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2009\/12\/yes-virginia-there-is-santa-claus.html\">Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>xkcd on <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/679\/\">the physics of Christmas<\/a>. (For the record, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/people\/ph\/Werner_Heisenberg.html\">I&#8217;m pretty sure<\/a> Heisenberg celebrated the holiday.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/2009\/12\/22\/transvestites-mao-and-obama-decorate-white-house-christmas-tree\/\">What&#8217;s on the White House Christmas tree<\/a>? (As if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/your-moment-of-glenn-beck-recites-charlie-browns-christmas\/\">Glenn Beck<\/a> didn&#8217;t have enough to ineptly rant and spume about over the holidays. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/27\/15-toys-not-to-buy-your-k_n_351369.html?slidenumber=%2FeZL5pmGaOo%3D#slide_image\">15 Toys Not to Buy Your Kids This Christmas<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know about you, but with the first part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">The End of Time<\/a> airing in the UK this weekend, it looks like I will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GuBJ5H9m3Sc\">spending Christmas with a Dalek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard that Bob Dylan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/#\/christmas-in-the-heart-donate\">has a new Christmas album<\/a> out. You may even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundopinions.org\/cm\/reviews\/show\/203\">have heard<\/a> how awful it is. (And believe me, it is awful.) But now you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qVs6X9yIM_k\">see for yourself<\/a>. This may be the most wonderfully, horrible strange cover of &#8220;Must Be Santa&#8221; ever.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, Patton Oswalt on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapelessmass.com\/media\/christmas_music\/Patton%20Oswalt%20-%20Christmas%20Shoes.mp3\">what may be my least favorite Christmas song ever<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Happy holidays!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. xkcd on the physics of Christmas. (For the record, I&#8217;m pretty sure Heisenberg celebrated the holiday.) What&#8217;s on the White House Christmas tree? (As if Glenn Beck didn&#8217;t have enough to ineptly rant and spume about over the holidays. [via] 15 Toys Not to Buy Your Kids This &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3659\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[100,80,92,15,37,63,10,7],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-christmas","tag-comedy","tag-history","tag-music","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-various","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}