{"id":426,"date":"2009-12-17T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-12-17T00:57:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:57:56","slug":"in-the-holiday-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2009\/12\/in-the-holiday-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"In the holiday spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, two silly little things this morning contributed to this, which I shamelessly then used to exploit the nature of my friend Dan Palmer, who now shares the writing credit (or blame, as you see fit) for this. Short story<strong>:<\/strong> A stray song lyric seen in a comic strip, and a nonsense conversation with Dan, suddenly caused a mental rewrite of two lines, and once that started, more followed. And Dan is always up to that kind of challenge. So, with apologies to Mel Torme, Robert Walls, and Nat King Cole&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCrackpots boasting on an open wire<br \/>\nMaking claims &#8217;bout planet Mars<br \/>\nPop-up ads hawking Christmas attire<br \/>\nAnd folks dressed up in avatars<\/p>\n<p>Everybody spars &#8217;bout Tiger and some mistress &#8216;ho<br \/>\nCause they all know they must be right<br \/>\nTiny tots with their iPods aglow<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t find it hard to tweet tonight<\/p>\n<p>You know that Santa&#8217;s on his Wii<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s &#8220;pwning n00bs&#8221; that chose the PS3<br \/>\nAnd every online child is gonna Skype,<br \/>\nto &#8220;c if rndeers rly no how 2 typ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My inbox spills quotes misattributed<br \/>\nAnd cats that have too much to say<br \/>\nSo to sample the heart of each YouTube thread<br \/>\n&#8220;OMG THATS SO GAY&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, two silly little things this morning contributed to this, which I shamelessly then used to exploit the nature of my friend Dan Palmer, who now shares the writing credit (or blame, as you see fit) for this. Short story: A stray song lyric seen in a comic strip, and a nonsense conversation with Dan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,92,93],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-blinding-pain","tag-dan-palmer","tag-the-christmas-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}