{"id":673,"date":"2010-12-20T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2010-12-20T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:38:08","slug":"holiday-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Holiday spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By which I mean I made <a href=\"https:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009744.html\">rumballs<\/a> for the first time this weekend. Whyever did I not make those before? Gingersnaps work beautifully for the base. Spicy boozy goodness!<\/p>\n<p>Terri Windling is doing a series on her blog on <a href=\"https:\/\/windling.typepad.com\/blog\/your-desktop\/\">desks<\/a>: artists, writers, famous, little-known&#8211;they&#8217;re all there, and it&#8217;s fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>I love Christmas music, but only for a week or so a year, and this is that week. I know we&#8217;ve all been subjected to old chestnuts since October, and are sick and tired of them all. So instead, I&#8217;m going to feature some things here that are more&#8230; <i>interesting<\/i>&#8230; while still seasonally appropriate. Another set of songs will be appearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahgoslee.com\/?p=375\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite carols is actually a Ukrainian New Year&#8217;s song about sheep in the original, though Christmas lyrics have been added on top of the tune. The version I like the most, by Kitka, isn&#8217;t available online, so this will have to do.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ysIzPF3BfpQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ysIzPF3BfpQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By which I mean I made rumballs for the first time this weekend. Whyever did I not make those before? Gingersnaps work beautifully for the base. Spicy boozy goodness! Terri Windling is doing a series on her blog on desks: artists, writers, famous, little-known&#8211;they&#8217;re all there, and it&#8217;s fascinating. I love Christmas music, but only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,85,30,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","category-music","category-people-doing-cool-things","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}