{"id":1210,"date":"2007-12-07T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2007-12-07T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:07:03","slug":"heres_one_for_anne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/heres_one_for_anne\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s One for Anne"},"content":{"rendered":"

My darling Girlfriend loves Christmas carols. She also loves a cappella singers performing Christmas carols. Myself, not so much.<\/p>\n

I try to restrain my inner grinch for her sake — I really don’t<\/i> like making her feel bad — but it’s so very, very hard when confronted by a bunch of fresh-faced young men who have perfect harmony and really cheesy joke-writers. The genre just naturally tends to lead to cutesy-ism, and that’s something I cannot abide. The one time I gave in and went along with her and her mom to the annual holiday performance by local sensation Voicemale<\/a>, it was all I could do to keep my nervous twitching from throwing me right out of my seat. (Sorry, dear, I really am… but then, you knew all this already and for some reason you still like me…)<\/p>\n

It might not be so bad if all the a cappella groups out there would take a hint from these guys:<\/p>\n

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That’s the way you do it: cover all the favorites in a single arrangement, throw in a little Toto for good measure, then thank everyone for coming and to all a good night! Yeah…<\/p>\n

My thanks to Greenberg<\/a> for finding this.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> If for some reason you want to read more of my grouchy, anti-Christmas-music babble, revisit this classic entry<\/a> from a couple of years ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My darling Girlfriend loves Christmas carols. She also loves a cappella singers performing Christmas carols. Myself, not so much. I try to restrain my inner grinch for her sake — I really don’t like making her feel bad — but it’s so very, very hard when confronted by a bunch of fresh-faced young men who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}