{"id":1114,"date":"2011-12-21T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/seven-christmas-songs-i-love-plus-2-part-7\/"},"modified":"2011-12-21T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T01:11:00","slug":"seven-christmas-songs-i-love-plus-2-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/seven-christmas-songs-i-love-plus-2-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Christmas Songs I Love (Plus 2) &#8211; Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you reading this probably know that I have a (bizarre) sense of humor. So in addition to the serious Christmas songs in my collection, there are also a number of humorous <a href=\"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/285106\/\">Christmas Songs I Love<\/a>. After all, I have the Chipmunks, Sesame Street, and the Muppets in my collection, and enjoy them all. And, oddly enough, all of them have a humorous version of &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> IMO, the best way to perform that song is as a send-up of some sort. Eddie Izzard has a fun bit in Dressed to Kill where he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgSe_gzyM1c\">discusses the &#8220;5 Gold Rings&#8221; bit in the song<\/a>. (Must admit, that&#8217;s my favorite bit, too.) But of all the send-ups, my favorite version is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sncmusic.com\/\">Straight No Chaser<\/a>, an a capella men&#8217;s group. <\/p>\n<p> <center><lj-embed id=\"62\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p> If you enjoyed this, too, I highly recommend their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7E-47VmFopE&amp;ob=av2e\">Christmas Can Can<\/a>&#8221; as well. <\/p>\n<p> (Today was Baking Day 2011 and we&#8217;ve been working hard all day. And we still have stuff to do. Yay for Baking Day!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you reading this probably know that I have a (bizarre) sense of humor. So in addition to the serious Christmas songs in my collection, there are also a number of humorous Christmas Songs I Love. After all, I have the Chipmunks, Sesame Street, and the Muppets in my collection, and enjoy them all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,33],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-christmas","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}