{"id":31811,"date":"2020-12-04T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2020-12-06T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:25:55","slug":"covid-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/covid-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music 2020: Covid Christmas by  Dara Schindelka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> is the thing of 2020 so why not sing about it. That&#8217;s the theme of this new song from Canadian singer Dara Schindelka:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UIR_Sjzgr4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merrypodcast.com\/podcast\/new-christmas-music\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic.jpg\" alt=\"New Christmas Music 2020 - Merry Little Podcast\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-1030x129.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As she told <strong>CTV News<\/strong>, Schindelka did not write this song for making a record. She wrote it as a coping mechanism for dealing with, well, COVID.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schindelka is a music and arts education teacher at the public school in La Ronge. She said that\u2019s where she contracted COVID-19 last month.<\/p>\n<p>She said self-isolating and being away from her family, friends and work was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a people person, that\u2019s tough, but for a musician, that kind of gave way to processing it through music,\u201d said Schindelka.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t write the song with the intention of recording and releasing it. Then, she thought it would provide a positive outlook for people during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis holiday season is going to happen, and we can embrace it or we can look for all of those negative things that are very easy to see in our world around us and so I thought, you know what, let\u2019s have a lighthearted kind of theme to this song, \u201d said Schindelka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually really down at the time, but this song helped bring me up,\u201d she said in a news release.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid Christmas is the thing of 2020 so why not sing about it. That&#8217;s the theme of this new song from Canadian singer Dara Schindelka: As she told CTV News, Schindelka did not write this song for making a record. She wrote it as a coping mechanism for dealing with, well, COVID. &#8220;Schindelka is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31812,"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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[851],"class_list":["post-31811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-covid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811","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=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}