{"id":83508,"date":"2018-12-24T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83508"},"modified":"2018-12-15T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:27:15","slug":"christmas-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83508","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83510\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-83510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV-497x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV-497x333.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Christmas decoration theme \u2013 American Dreams. Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Merry<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Christmas<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Aint<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hell<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">!<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You guys come up with the themes and focus for this thread. In the meantime, here are some Christmas\/Holiday music that was performed during the Medieval Period and the Renaissance:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Medieval Carol &#8220;Gaudete&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Gaudete&#039; Carol - Clare College Cambridge Choir &amp; London Cello Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon conducts\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1NgHonWNE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-14T10:02:18-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1NgHonWNE0?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l1NgHonWNE0\" data-author_name=\"adam28xx\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@adam28xx\" data-height=\"375\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/l1NgHonWNE0\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"&apos;Gaudete&apos; Carol - Clare College Cambridge Choir &amp; London Cello Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon conducts\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> London Cello Orchestra, The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Simon<br \/>\n<strong>Album<\/strong>: A Cello Christmas<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Personent Hodie:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTz_rcolwyA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MUSIC: Andrea Alonso \/ Celtic Song &#8211; A Celtic Christmas CD<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As I Lay on Yoolis Night|English Medieval Christmas Song:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Als I Lay on Yoolis Night | English Medieval Christmas Song (lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7QlxvTIU6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Medieval Carols, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Medieval Carols, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sc-Ep9KP5Ww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-14T10:02:19-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sc-Ep9KP5Ww?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sc-Ep9KP5Ww\" data-author_name=\"Muzikay\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Muzikay\" data-height=\"375\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Sc-Ep9KP5Ww\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Medieval Carols, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>Various artists listed under video.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Have fun this Christmas, enjoy the visits, gifts, feasts and drinking, but be safe and don&#8217;t be a stranger here. Knock yourself silly with enjoyment and posting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas This Aint Hell!\u00a0 You guys come up with the themes and focus for this &hellip; <a title=\"Christmas Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-83508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}