{"id":7983,"date":"2011-12-24T18:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2011-12-23T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:22:48","slug":"holiday-various","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7983","title":{"rendered":"Holiday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/12\/merry-christmas.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/houdini.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"houdini\" width=\"520\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7986\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/12\/merry-christmas.html\">Happy holidays from Houdini<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/post\/14211748881\/i-do-not-recall-lobbying-for-anything-as-a-boy\">writes Neil Gaiman<\/a>, &#8220;as hard as I lobbied, with my sisters, for a Christmas tree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/988\/\">xkcd lists the 20 most-played Christmas Songs<\/a> in terms of radio airplay. He notes, not wrongly, that &#8220;An &#8216;American tradition&#8217; is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice.&#8221; (See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/community\/video\/pierce-sings\/1372642\"><i>Community<\/i>&#8216;s terrific &#8220;Baby Boomer Santa&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/godzilla-christmas-tree-breathes-christmas-fire\">Godzilla Christmas Tree Breathes Christmas Fire!<\/a> (Although, when I posted this to Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/30RockTree\">the Rockerfeller Center tree<\/a> wrote back that the Godzilla one was a poser.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy holidays from Houdini &#8220;I do not recall lobbying for anything, as a boy,&#8221; writes Neil Gaiman, &#8220;as hard as I lobbied, with my sisters, for a Christmas tree. xkcd lists the 20 most-played Christmas Songs in terms of radio airplay. He notes, not wrongly, that &#8220;An &#8216;American tradition&#8217; is anything that happened to a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7983\">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":[182,109,138,15,9,17,10,39],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-holidays","tag-letters","tag-magic","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983"}],"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=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}