{"id":83501,"date":"2018-12-25T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83501"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:36:53","slug":"merry-christmas-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83501","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas &#8211; Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A paraphrased repeat from a year ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, once again we&#8217;re &#8220;enjoying&#8221; participating in that annual ritual called &#8220;Holiday Travel&#8221; &#8211; and it&#8217;s now Christmas Day. So I decided to repost what I thought was some appropriate Christmas music for our readers.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the tune here was indeed written by one of the original hippies from the 60s &#8211; albeit one who did have at least a little common sense (see his tune &#8220;Taxman&#8221;). And yeah, the chorus is unrealistic and Polyannaish in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>But for a military audience, the sentiment is apropos; many of us know just how bad war can be, having seen it firsthand. And today the song just seems apropos.  The version below is IMO even better than Lennon&#8217;s original.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kanSF97X0yY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, all. Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paraphrased repeat from a year ago. Well, once again we&#8217;re &#8220;enjoying&#8221; participating in that annual &hellip; <a title=\"Merry Christmas &#8211; Redux\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83501\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas &#8211; Redux<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}