{"id":118,"date":"2009-12-13T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-12-22T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T23:27:31","slug":"christmas-music-gets-a-bad-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Music Gets a Bad Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vgg.com\/mp3\/crewxmas.jpg\" alt=\"Crew X album cover\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>\nNovelty songs are always hit or miss, but Christmas is a time of especially egregious examples of eccentric tunesmithery. Here&#8217;s a couple of raptastic, craptastic examples from 1992 by &#8220;Crew X&#8221; with all the best beats a cheap drum machine can make, and hitting all of your fave public domain rave-ups.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgg.com\/mp3\/CrewX_Hark_The_Herald_Angels_Sing.mp3\">Hark! The Herald Angels Sing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vgg.com\/mp3\/CrewX_Twelve_Days_Of_Christmas.mp3\">Twelve Days Of Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelty songs are always hit or miss, but Christmas is a time of especially egregious examples of eccentric tunesmithery. Here&#8217;s a couple of raptastic, craptastic examples from 1992 by &#8220;Crew X&#8221; with all the best beats a cheap drum machine can make, and hitting all of your fave public domain rave-ups. Hark! The Herald Angels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-mp3-monday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}