{"id":801,"date":"2011-12-12T22:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-12-12T22:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:39:38","slug":"welcome-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/welcome-step-in","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Step In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So just like every year, I&#8217;ve been preparing and sending NYRA&#8217;s holiday cards, and my soundtrack for this task has been 97.1 WASH&#8217;s 24\/7 Christmas music on the stupid I Heart Radio streaming thing. Something that, as a cursory glance through the Musical Musing category will tell you, I have a rather complicated relationship with!<\/p>\n<p>One popular and of course overplayed song is Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Step Into Christmas&#8221;. Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>Then I noticed something about the song I never noticed before.<\/p>\n<p>The first line of the song is&#8230; &#8220;Welcome to my Christmas song!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Um, thanks, Elton! I guess.<\/p>\n<p>You see, that&#8217;s the kind of lyrics that really makes you think.<\/p>\n<p>Even if just thinking he should go back to Chef for more help with them.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just like every year, I&#8217;ve been preparing and sending NYRA&#8217;s holiday cards, and my soundtrack for this task has been 97.1 WASH&#8217;s 24\/7 Christmas music on the stupid I Heart Radio streaming thing. Something that, as a cursory glance through the Musical Musing category will tell you, I have a rather complicated relationship with! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2011\/12\/12\/welcome-step-in\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome, Step In&#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-801","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\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}