{"id":11332,"date":"2014-10-06T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/grown-up-christmas-list-day\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T02:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:18:17","slug":"grown-up-christmas-list-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/grown-up-christmas-list-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Grown Up Christmas List Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/merryholidays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"0\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-821\" \/>Today is Monday, October 6th, 2014 and there are only 80 days left until <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It is <strong><em>Grown Up <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> List Day<\/em><\/strong>. It was on this day in 1990 that the song Grown Up <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> List first showed up on David Foster\u2019s album, <em>River of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Love<\/a><\/em>. Foster, one of the most prolific writers of American pop music ever and producer of hit <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> albums for a variety of artists, didn\u2019t see much success with the song until it was recorded two years later by Amy Grant:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RmF2rsDHOZc&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>Since then the song has become a staple of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and has been recorded by dozens of artists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Monday, October 6th, 2014 and there are only 80 days left until Christmas. It is Grown Up Christmas List Day. It was on this day in 1990 that the song Grown Up Christmas List first showed up on David Foster\u2019s album, River of Love. Foster, one of the most prolific writers of American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11333,"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":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-11332","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\/11332","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=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}