{"id":23653,"date":"2015-11-27T07:04:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23653"},"modified":"2015-11-27T07:04:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:04:17","slug":"stevie-wonder-and-andra-day-sing-someday-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/stevie-wonder-and-andra-day-sing-someday-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder and Andra Day Sing Someday at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season is already carrying dark marks of distress. From rumored wars to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/11\/23\/world-war-christmas-sham-says-pope-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pope&#8217;s comments about Christmas being a charade<\/strong><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/Chicago-Braces-for-Protests-Following-Dash-Cam-Video-Release-353938711.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>protesters taking down Christmas trees<\/strong><\/a> it seems there&#8217;s an edge to this season we have not seen in a very, very long time. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of the lost messages of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> was the declaration made to the shepherds: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Peace<\/a>, on earth and to all men, goodwill.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>It seems a simple enough message. Yet it continues to elude us. That&#8217;s maybe in some small part what Stevie Wonder reminds us of in this new duet with Andra Day of a Stevie Wonder classic from 1967 &#8212; more important than ever:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjBZoOs_dXg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas season is already carrying dark marks of distress. From rumored wars to the Pope&#8217;s comments about Christmas being a charade to protesters taking down Christmas trees it seems there&#8217;s an edge to this season we have not seen in a very, very long time. Perhaps one of the lost messages of Christmas was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23654,"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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[456,457,455],"class_list":["post-23653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","tag-andra-day","tag-someday-at-christmas","tag-stevie-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653","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=23653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}