{"id":450,"date":"2011-12-18T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2011-12-18T23:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:06:11","slug":"twelve-days-of-christmas-songs-that-dont-suck-that-one-song-from-a-charlie-brown-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Christmas Songs that Don&#8217;t Suck &#8211; That One Song from A Charlie Brown Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, this one:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPG3zSgm_Qo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAgain it&#8217;s not cheery. &#8220;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221; is as far as I&#8217;m concerned the only Christmas special based on a cartoon franchise that can actually be considered a classic. Yes, Linus&#8217; &#8220;And that&#8217;s what Christmas is really about&#8221; speech seems a little bit shoved in at the end, and yes every lazy animator&#8217;s trick in the book is glaringly evident. (Actually, forget I said that. There&#8217;s no such thing as laziness among people who draw sixty pictures for every second their work is viewed.) But I can connect with it. Charlie Brown feels the same way I feel every freaking year. And this song matches the mood perfectly. It&#8217;s art.<\/p>\n<p>What doesn&#8217;t match that mood perfectly is Richard Cheese&#8217;s cover of the song, but it&#8217;s still fun:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XPB-5uQxCN4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, this one: Again it&#8217;s not cheery. &#8220;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8221; is as far as I&#8217;m concerned the only Christmas special based on a cartoon franchise that can actually be considered a classic. Yes, Linus&#8217; &#8220;And that&#8217;s what Christmas[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/?p=450\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}