{"id":1285,"date":"2014-12-21T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2014-12-22T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T05:34:12","slug":"background-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2014\/12\/21\/background-music","title":{"rendered":"Background Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what&#8217;s fun about listening to Christmas music? Well, a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is that it makes everything you do seem like it&#8217;s part of your very own Christmas special. That mundane actions suddenly become festive.<\/p>\n<p>Filing paperwork? Meh. Filing paperwork with &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; in the background? Festive!<\/p>\n<p>Driving to the grocery store? Meh. Driving to the grocery store with &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; in the background? Festive!<\/p>\n<p>Stuck in traffic while in a hurry? Meh. Stuck in traffic while in a hurry with &#8220;Carol of the Bells&#8221; in the background? Festive!<\/p>\n<p>Sitting around eating cookies? Delicious. Sitting around eating cookies with &#8220;Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; in the background? Still delicious. And festive.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what&#8217;s fun about listening to Christmas music? Well, a lot of things. One thing is that it makes everything you do seem like it&#8217;s part of your very own Christmas special. That mundane actions suddenly become festive. Filing paperwork? Meh. Filing paperwork with &#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221; in the background? Festive! Driving to the grocery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2014\/12\/21\/background-music\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Background Music&#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":[21,26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-musical-musing","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}