{"id":271,"date":"2015-12-15T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/?p=271"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:47:15","slug":"its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/12\/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been listening to Christmas songs on repeat lately, and the song &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; has been appearing frequently in my headphones. When I decided to listen to them in the car with my friends the other day, this song of course came on again. Someone pointed out a line I have never payed attention to in my previous mindless sing-alongs. The line occurs in the verse,<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be parties for hosting<br \/>\nMarshmallows for toasting<br \/>\nAnd caroling out in the snow<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be scary ghost stories<br \/>\nAnd tales of the glories of the<br \/>\nChristmases long, long ago<\/p>\n<p>The question my friend asked after hearing this verse was, &#8220;Why do they bring up ghost stories? I don&#8217;t associate ghost stories with Christmas time.&#8221; This made me think of my fascination with the supernatural elements of Dickens&#8217;s Christmas stories. The rest of this song portrays the lifestyle Dickens created in his Christmas stories, it makes sense that the song also mentions ghost stories. I do not know if Andy Williams was thinking of <em>A Christmas Carol <\/em>when he wrote this song, but it is interesting to see that some of Dickens&#8217;s Christmas traditions are still around whereas these &#8220;scary ghost stories&#8221; have just become a confusing lost reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been listening to Christmas songs on repeat lately, and the song &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; has been appearing frequently in my headphones. When I decided to listen to them in the car with my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/12\/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}