{"id":1224,"date":"2007-12-18T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2007-12-18T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T11:19:10","slug":"max_headroom_sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/18\/max_headroom_sings\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Headroom Sings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; how is it possible that even with my vast collection of ephemera and miscellaneous junk, not to mention my insatiable appetite for trivia and an unceasing affection for the decade I most closely consider my Formative Years &#8212; that would be the Awesome 80s, for those who haven&#8217;t been paying attention &#8212; how is it possible that I have only <i>now<\/i> discovered that our favorite imitation AI once recorded his very own smarmy Christmas tune? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you &#8220;Merry Christmas, Santa Claus (You&#8217;re a Lovely Guy)&#8221; by Max Headroom:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8ZHrC05qt6c&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"355\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8ZHrC05qt6c&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>An immortal classic for sure, right up there with &#8220;What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb).&#8221; For the record, I found this fascinating little piece of pop-cultural flotsam <a href=\"http:\/\/bornagain80s.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/80s-christmas-classics.html\">here<\/a>. And I promise this will be the last time I mention M-M-Max Headroom for a while-while-while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow&#8230; how is it possible that even with my vast collection of ephemera and miscellaneous junk, not to mention my insatiable appetite for trivia and an unceasing affection for the decade I most closely consider my Formative Years &#8212; that would be the Awesome 80s, for those who haven&#8217;t been paying attention &#8212; how is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}