{"id":242,"date":"2009-12-21T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-12-21T21:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:29:23","slug":"dont_be_a_grinch_music_edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/12\/dont_be_a_grinch_music_edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Be a Grinch (Music Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I know I got a little “Bah! Humbug!”-y on the ol’ Christmas tunes last week<\/a>. I admit that memories of suburban shopping frenzies and endless cocktail parties have turned me a bit dark when it comes to the holiday classics. But the internet being, well, the internet, a few gems turned up to make me change my (yes, I’m going there) tune. (The holiday punch helped also.) <\/p>\n

First, the talented and adorable Pomplamoose bring us this warm and fuzzy (and non-denominational!! and good cause $$ generating!!) tune “Always in the Season.”<\/p>\n


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The real ear-opening experience, however–aside from the Christmas song about the hippopotamus<\/a> (?!?!) at least–came with Ted Hearne’s arrangement of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Somehow, I must not have been paying close enough attention these past 30 years. It took Ted’s arresting sonic manipulations to rouse me from my sugar-induced cookie stupor and wake me up to what this song was actually supposed to be about<\/a>. When you’re ready to leave behind the saccharinely sanitized “let your heart be light” lyrical rewrite, go and listen to Ted’s take on the original version here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I know I got a little “Bah! Humbug!”-y on the ol’ Christmas tunes last week. I admit that memories of suburban shopping frenzies and endless cocktail parties have turned me a bit dark when it comes to the holiday classics. But the internet being, well, the internet, a few gems turned up to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}