{"id":543,"date":"2008-12-19T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-12-19T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T20:11:53","slug":"holiday-music-christmas-in-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Holiday music:  Christmas in the trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas from the Family is the holiday song that makes me laugh.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_in_the_Trenches_%28song%29\">Christmas in the Trenches<\/a> is the one that makes me misty and then some.  John McCutcheon turns a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_truce\">true story<\/a> into a real tear-jerker with a message. <\/p>\n<p>Two versions: Straight recent live performance &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sJi41RWaTCs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sJi41RWaTCs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>and older live performance with back story and period pictures.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s9coPzDx6tA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s9coPzDx6tA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p> Was a big McCutcheon fan back in college days.  Good to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Christmas+in+the+Trenches&#038;search_type=\">this favorite is still popular, at least on the YouTubes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas from the Family is the holiday song that makes me laugh. Christmas in the Trenches is the one that makes me misty and then some. John McCutcheon turns a true story into a real tear-jerker with a message. Two versions: Straight recent live performance &#8230; and older live performance with back story and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holiday music:  Christmas in the trenches&#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":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}