{"id":306,"date":"2007-12-14T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-12-21T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T00:10:04","slug":"best-holiday-song-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Best holiday song ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.robertearlkeen.com\">Robert Earl Keen<\/a>&#8216;s Merry Christmas from the Family.  While this bears little resemblence to the Christmas&#8217;s I&#8217;ve known, it brings me nearly to tears every year during this season.  I mean this is what getting together with family is all about.  <em>Bloody Marys &#8217;cause we all want one!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object WIDTH=\"425\" HEIGHT=\"355\"><param NAME=\"movie\" VALUE=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P37xPiRz1sg&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param NAME=\"wmode\" VALUE=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed SRC=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P37xPiRz1sg&amp;rel=1\" TYPE=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" WIDTH=\"425\" HEIGHT=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object>My nomination for worst:  National Republican Senatorial Committee&#8217;s version of the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/politics\/war-on-christmas\/santa-jesus-killing-themselves-332999.php?autoplay=true\">12 Days of Christmas<\/a>.   I thought it was a spoof.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  Jill Sobule&#8217;s cover of Merry Christmas from the Family, which <a HREF=\"http:\/\/transatlanticplantsman.typepad.com\/transatlantic_plantsman\/\">Graham<\/a> promises he&#8217;ll play tomorrow (12\/22) on his radio show, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thebritmix.org\/\">The Brit Mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/myspacetv.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=23945352\">Merry Christmas from the Family<\/a><embed HEIGHT=\"346\" WIDTH=\"430\" TYPE=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"m=23945352&amp;v=2&amp;type=video\" SRC=\"http:\/\/lads.myspace.com\/videos\/vplayer.swf\"><\/embed><a HREF=\"http:\/\/myspacetv.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.addToProfileConfirm&amp;videoid=23945352&amp;title=Merry Christmas from the Family\">Add to My Profile<\/a> | <a HREF=\"http:\/\/myspacetv.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.home\">More Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Earl Keen&#8216;s Merry Christmas from the Family. While this bears little resemblence to the Christmas&#8217;s I&#8217;ve known, it brings me nearly to tears every year during this season. I mean this is what getting together with family is all about. Bloody Marys &#8217;cause we all want one! My nomination for worst: National Republican Senatorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best holiday song ever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}