{"id":35415,"date":"2025-09-06T19:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/?p=35415"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:52:42","slug":"the-fake-stuff-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/the-fake-stuff-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fake Stuff of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debut of The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas explores the Fake Stuff of Christmas: plastic snowmen, polyester Christmas trees, chrome stars, and resin Santa Claus&#8217; are just the tip of the fake iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>We delve in to the bogus date of December 25th, that Christmas does not begin with the Baby of Bethlehem and how even Jingle Bells is a fake Christmas song.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way we bring a great assortment of original Christmas music, including the little known <a href=\"https:\/\/merrypodcast.com\/podcast\/the-legend-of-ricky-bland\/\">Legend of Ricky Bland<\/a> and his fast quick Christmas hit of 1987.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rousing, festive beginning for The Christmas Show on My Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"radio_player\" data-player-type=\"shortcode\" data-data=\"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\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debut of The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas explores the Fake Stuff of Christmas: plastic snowmen, polyester Christmas trees, chrome stars, and resin Santa Claus&#8217; are just the tip of the fake iceberg. We delve in to the bogus date of December 25th, that Christmas does not begin with the Baby of Bethlehem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Fake Stuff of Christmas","_seopress_titles_desc":"The debut episode of the Christmas Show explores the Fake Stuff of Christmas.","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":85,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","category-the-christmas-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35415","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=35415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35421,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35415\/revisions\/35421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}