{"id":1639,"date":"2014-08-14T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/santa-and-rockettes-disrupt-nyc-traffic\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:37:02","slug":"santa-and-rockettes-disrupt-nyc-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/santa-and-rockettes-disrupt-nyc-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa and Rockettes Disrupt NYC Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> and the Rockettes stopped traffic in New York City today \u2014 literally. With the traditional high leg kicks of the Rockettes and Santa\u2019s unflappable jolliness the event was all a promotion for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> City Music Hall\u2019s annual \u201cChristmas in August\u201d event. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> along with 15 Rockettes costumed as rag dolls, stood on a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> City Music Hall porch on Thursday as 12 Rockettes dressed as toy soldiers marched on the street below to perform the \u201cParade of the Wooden Soldiers.\u201d The classic dance number has been a part of the \u201cRadio City <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Spectacular\u201d since 1933.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so fun for us to get to perform something on the street in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> City that the Rockettes have been doing for years and years,\u201d said Nicole Baker, a 9-year veteran of the dance company, told the local media. <\/p>\n<p>The 6-minute promotional stunt \u2014 complete with a belching snow machine \u2014 was for \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> City <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Spectacular,\u201d which starts Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerry <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>!\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. \u201cAnd I want is to see you all at the show this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, there are 132 days until <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/4lnsn7e28tk.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa and the Rockettes stopped traffic in New York City today \u2014 literally. With the traditional high leg kicks of the Rockettes and Santa\u2019s unflappable jolliness the event was all a promotion for Radio City Music Hall\u2019s annual \u201cChristmas in August\u201d event. Santa along with 15 Rockettes costumed as rag dolls, stood on a Radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","tag-external-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}