{"id":23512,"date":"2015-11-06T03:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23512"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T22:02:40","slug":"the-john-lewis-ad-is-out-and-it-does-not-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/the-john-lewis-ad-is-out-and-it-does-not-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"The John Lewis Ad is Out and It Does Not Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season in the UK gets off with a bang each year as <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a> are festively lit in a very public way and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> shopping public rushes to their televisions to watch the best of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Americans can scratch their head at this all they want. This is the UK tradition and it&#8217;s a good one. While Americans wax nostalgic for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> commercials of their youth tied to the same animated TV specials playing since the 1960s Brits are enjoying brilliant and all-new ads each year that are like mini-movies &#8212; they tell a story, share new music and maybe even cause you to shed a tear or two.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, they aren&#8217;t really ads. They are entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>None is bigger than the John Lewis ad and everyone has been waiting for it. Wait no more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-video av-la78jc-4c585fc007d3b891ef164b25f9dbe403 avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jGY-T4W-BOc'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Lewis Christmas Advert 2015   #ManOnTheMoon\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jGY-T4W-BOc?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas season in the UK gets off with a bang each year as lights are festively lit in a very public way and the Christmas shopping public rushes to their televisions to watch the best of this year&#8217;s Christmas commercials. Americans can scratch their head at this all they want. This is the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23513,"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":[28,2,99],"tags":[411,412],"class_list":["post-23512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-television","tag-christmas-commercials","tag-john-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}