{"id":465,"date":"2009-12-21T22:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-12-21T22:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:19:54","slug":"can-hardly-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/can-hardly-wait","title":{"rendered":"Can Hardly Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness, how many Christmas songs am I going to criticize?! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The one of the moment is &#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221;. It&#8217;s an okay song as a whole, if a bit dated. But there is one line in it that just sticks out like a Mormon on SnipeMe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, WTF? I mean, I&#8217;m not blaming the song for this line, because it can&#8217;t help, well, speaking the truth. Line comes right after listing what some kids hope to get for Christmas. I guess like a whole this-is-what-these-people-are-thinking during the Christmas season. Kids are eagerly anticipating their gifts, and the parents&#8230; wish the kids would STFU and go back to school already.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, those mature responsible adults. :irked:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness, how many Christmas songs am I going to criticize?! \ud83d\ude00 The one of the moment is &#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221;. It&#8217;s an okay song as a whole, if a bit dated. But there is one line in it that just sticks out like a Mormon on SnipeMe. &#8220;And mom and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2009\/12\/21\/can-hardly-wait\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Hardly Wait&#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":[21,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-musical-musing","category-youth-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}