{"id":24189,"date":"2016-07-06T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=24189"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:36:48","slug":"the-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/the-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of The Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/natkingcole-720x300-1-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"Nat King Cole -- The Christmas Song\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/natkingcole-720x300-1-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/natkingcole-720x300-1-705x294.jpg 705w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/natkingcole-720x300-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> purists are funny people.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week we released a new podcast featuring the best selling songs of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. We thought folks would be interested in this list. But no&#8230;..they seem to be a little upset by it, if our email is any indication.<\/p>\n<p>The most feedback we have received has not been about the list itself but rather those songs that DIDN&#8217;T make the list. And the #1 song not on the list that has some <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music fans dismayed is The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Song, by Nat King Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;ve decided to issue a new episode of The Merry Little Podcast to address these concerns, which you can listen to below. Trust me, we explain it all.<\/p>\n<p>And have no fear &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Song won&#8217;t be disappearing from your holiday <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">radio<\/a> station any time soon. If anything, this is one of those songs that has become nothing but more popular over time.<\/p>\n<p>So relax&#8230;and listen to why it didn&#8217;t make the top ten.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24189-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/mlp\/mlpepisode3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/mlp\/mlpepisode3.mp3\">http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/mlp\/mlpepisode3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas purists are funny people. Earlier this week we released a new podcast featuring the best selling songs of Christmas. We thought folks would be interested in this list. But no&#8230;..they seem to be a little upset by it, if our email is any indication. The most feedback we have received has not been about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30541,"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":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[368,367,290],"class_list":["post-24189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-merry-podcast","tag-mel-torme","tag-nat-king-cole","tag-the-christmas-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189","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=24189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}