{"id":15983,"date":"2012-12-04T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=15983"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:04:27","slug":"sleigh-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/sleigh-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a complete Grinch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/lSbPJSw1MRI\/mqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>At the beginning of Advent I did <a title=\"You may now begin playing your Advent music\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/you-may-now-begin-playing-your-advent-music\/\">a short post<\/a>\u00a0with a video of my favourite Advent hymn, <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;O Come, O Come, Emmanuel&#8221;<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(The <a href=\"http:\/\/thepianoguys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Piano Guys<\/a> were even good enough to release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iO7ySn-Swwc\">their rendition of that hymn<\/a>\u00a0today on YouTube).<\/p>\n<p>Today I wanted to share one of my favourite non-religious Advent-ish songs.\u00a0The song is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karminmusic.com\">Karmin<\/a>, the group which rose to fame on YouTube after releasing their own version of Chris Brown&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=khCokQt--l4\">Look At Me Now<\/a>. Here&#8217;s their newly-released song,\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Sleigh Ride&#8221;<\/span>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSbPJSw1MRI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;ll admit I still find it very strange listening to songs which talk about snow while living in Southern California&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong>So what&#8217;s your favourite non-religious Advent\/Christmas song?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of Advent I did a short post\u00a0with a video of my favourite Advent hymn, &#8220;O Come, O Come, Emmanuel&#8221;\u00a0(The Piano Guys were even good enough to release their rendition of that hymn\u00a0today on YouTube). Today I wanted to share one of my favourite non-religious Advent-ish songs.\u00a0The song is by Karmin, the group which rose to fame on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1837,1841,1840],"class_list":["post-15983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-karmin","tag-secular","tag-sleigh-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56618,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions\/56618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}