{"id":26400,"date":"2018-11-28T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26400"},"modified":"2018-11-28T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T04:01:22","slug":"captain-kirk-rudolph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/captain-kirk-rudolph\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Kirk Does Rudolph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are not many days like this in the course of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season. Today William Shatner &#8211; forever, in the eyes of most, Captain James T. Kirk &#8212; boldly went where many have gone before. And he did it his way. Watch this, if you dare:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wF2rjriHphg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, before you <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> purists out there go completely nutz lets just take a moment to reflect on some things.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, William Shatner is 87 years old. 87!!!! Can we give the guy some credit?<\/p>\n<p>This is not senility. It&#8217;s not even the good captain&#8217;s first foray into music. He&#8217;s got quite the, uh, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shatner%27s_musical_career\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>musical history<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these facts, Mr. Shatner is being skewered out there. Mercilessly. That just don&#8217;t seem right.<\/p>\n<p>The sad bit about all this is that William Shatner actually has a nice voice.<\/p>\n<p>Given a little vocal training, perhaps a little musical theory&#8230;hey, who knows what could happen, right?<\/p>\n<p>But really, this video\/song\/album from Shatner is all about fun.<\/p>\n<p>So lighten up you crass <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> critics. Old Bill is just being merry here, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are not many days like this in the course of a Christmas season. Today William Shatner &#8211; forever, in the eyes of most, Captain James T. Kirk &#8212; boldly went where many have gone before. And he did it his way. Watch this, if you dare: Now, before you Christmas purists out there go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26401,"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":[6,2],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-26400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-willilam-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26400","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}