{"id":6545,"date":"2009-12-23T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:43:49","slug":"carol-of-the-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6545","title":{"rendered":"Carol of the Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol of the Bells is one of my holiday favorites.  I love it to the point that I <em>avoid<\/em> playing it because I don&#8217;t want to wear it out.  I try to hold myself to just a few draughts of it each year. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a nice version of the song:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1JYrOMK1aDA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1JYrOMK1aDA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Everything is better with Muppets.  Yes, even <em>that<\/em>. Especially <em>that<\/em>.  But also this song.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ysIzPF3BfpQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ysIzPF3BfpQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ding Fries are Done&#8221; is ancient by internet standards.  I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s older than YouTube. <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFQyib5ZQZY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QFQyib5ZQZY'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>How about an version of the tune sung by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticwoman.com\/\">Celtic Woman<\/a>? (Which, confusingly, is actually a group of Women.) I don&#8217;t know if any of them are actually named Carol or not, although that would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FKrx-4Awe70\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FKrx-4Awe70'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite holiday song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol of the Bells is one of my holiday favorites. I love it to the point that I avoid playing it because I don&#8217;t want to wear it out. I try to hold myself to just a few draughts of it each year. Here is a nice version of the song: Link (YouTube) Everything is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}