{"id":760,"date":"2006-12-25T23:13:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/25\/and-a-modern-favourite\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T19:20:48","slug":"and-a-modern-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/and-a-modern-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and a modern favourite."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be fair to post about my favourite classic Christmas carol and not mention my favourite modern one.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado, I present:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/mediafiles\/06%20-%20Santa%20Claus%20Wants%20Some%20Lovin'.ogg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/infrastructure\/ogg.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Ogg Vorbis File\" title=\"Ogg Vorbis File\" style=\"border-style: none;\" \/><strong>Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinsleyellis.com\/\">Tinsley Ellis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(That link is to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorbis.com\/\">Ogg Vorbis<\/a> file, rather than to the perhaps-more-expected MP3. It will probably just work in your music player of choice, but if it doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorbis.com\/\">go here<\/a> to find out how to make it work. You&#8217;ll feel more like one of the cool techno-kids if you can play ogg files.)<\/p>\n<p>That selection is from my most-frequently-played Christmas album, which everyone should own a copy of:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alligator-Records-Christmas-Collection\/dp\/B000000A29\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/alligator_xmas.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Alligator Records Christmas Collection\" title=\"Alligator Records Christmas Collection\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">It wouldn&#8217;t be fair to post about my favourite classic Christmas carol and not mention my favourite modern one. So, without further ado, I present: Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin&#8217; by Tinsley Ellis. (That link is to an Ogg Vorbis file, rather than to the perhaps-more-expected MP3. It will probably just work in your music player of choice, but if&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/and-a-modern-favourite\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}