{"id":25893,"date":"2017-12-13T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=25893"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:01:06","slug":"88-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/88-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"88 Keys + 500,000 Lights + Three Ships = Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Schmidt of <em>The Piano Guys<\/em> replays an old favorite from a long ago solo-album and gives it a fresh spin with, oh, half a million <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a>. Take a look and a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D2IBGlDJ3lg\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>I Saw Three Ships<\/em> is an old English carol that makes almost no sense. How can three ships sail into Bethlehem when it is so far away from any body of water?<\/p>\n<p>Some believe the song is actually a nod to the Three Wisemen.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tune and it  has long belonged to Jon Schmidt who takes it to bouncy new heights in this clever video supposing that the piano controls the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We assure you &#8212; they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But, The Piano Guys pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>Those guys can do anything. They may be single-handedly re-writing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music and video with every passing season. They never fail to entertain and delight.<\/p>\n<p>Having listened to their new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thepianoguys.com\/shop\/albums\/piano-guys-christmas-together-cd\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christmas Together<\/strong><\/a><\/em> in full I&#8217;ve come to the opinion it may well be the best album of new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music to come along in more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fresh, it&#8217;s passionate, it&#8217;s filled with light and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and hope. Just what the doctor ordered for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> in our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Schmidt of The Piano Guys replays an old favorite from a long ago solo-album and gives it a fresh spin with, oh, half a million Christmas lights. Take a look and a listen: I Saw Three Ships is an old English carol that makes almost no sense. How can three ships sail into Bethlehem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25894,"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],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-25893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","tag-the-piano-guys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893","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=25893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}