{"id":11073,"date":"2014-10-03T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/ill-be-home-for-christmas-day\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:26:25","slug":"ill-be-home-for-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/ill-be-home-for-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Be Home For Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/merryholidays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bingcrosby.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"bingcrosby\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-818\" \/>Today is Saturday, October 4th, 2014 and there are only 82 days left until <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Today is <strong><em>I\u2019ll Be Home for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Day<\/em><\/strong>. On this date way back in 1943 Bing Crosby recorded the now classic song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra. Written from the perspective of the away-from-home-for-the-first-time soldier, the song expresses the wishes of one far from home and family who only longs to be home for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>, \u201cif only in my dreams\u201d. Written on the heels of \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d at a time when the music-listening generations of 18 year olds were marching off to war the song was destined to become a hit. <\/p>\n<p>The song became Crosby\u2019s fifth gold record and became the most requested song on USO tours. <\/p>\n<p>Not everyone loved the song, however. The BBC banned the song for a time from being played because of fears it would lower morale of British troops. <\/p>\n<p>In the decades since the song has come to represent the feelings of anyone away from home for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and has continued to see success in recordings from all kinds of musical artists.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Saturday, October 4th, 2014 and there are only 82 days left until Christmas! Today is I\u2019ll Be Home for Christmas Day. On this date way back in 1943 Bing Crosby recorded the now classic song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra. Written from the perspective of the away-from-home-for-the-first-time soldier, the song expresses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-11073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmas-countdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}