{"id":6000,"date":"2022-12-23T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"christmas-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6000","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS MUSIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each November 1st, a radio station here and there start playing Christmas music 24\/7. More join in with each passing week. By December 1st, everyone is all in on the Christmas music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We get week after week of <i>Rocking Around the Christmas Tree<\/i> and &#8211; God help us &#8211;\u00a0<i>Feliz Navidad<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So isn&#8217;t it weird then, that at midnight on December 25th, it all comes to an abrupt stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOBODY plays a single Christmas song after Christmas Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zip. Zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no afterglow whatsoever. It&#8217;s like Christmas never happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I am weird about Christmas music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I grumble about the excess before Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then bemoan its prompt dismissal after.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t we have just a little bit of balance?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each November 1st, a radio station here and there start playing Christmas music 24\/7. More join in with each passing week. By December 1st, everyone is all in on the Christmas music.\u00a0 We get week after week of Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and &#8211; God help us &#8211;\u00a0Feliz Navidad.\u00a0\u00a0 So isn&#8217;t it weird then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}