{"id":2065,"date":"2010-11-26T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T09:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2010-11-26T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T09:17:36","slug":"rock_and_roll_xmas_starring_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/26\/rock_and_roll_xmas_starring_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Xmas Starring&#8230; Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday, the day on which I must finally accept the inevitability of the Holiday Season, and stop muttering under my breath every time I hear a Christmas song on the radio. It&#8217;s here now, so I may as well grit my teeth, hold on tight, and ride this bronco through to the end.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of sucking it up and doing what you can to get by, here&#8217;s a silly little something I threw together over at <a href=\"http:\/\/sendables.jibjab.com\/\">JibJab<\/a>. Some of you may have already seen this on Facebook, but I think there&#8217;s enough diversity in my audiences here and there that I&#8217;m going to risk repeating myself, because this one really amuses me. The music is provided by the awesome mash-up band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocksugarband.com\/\">Rock Sugar<\/a>, and in a nice bit of synchronicity, the photo of my face that I used was taken at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month&#8230; enjoy!!<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #e9e9e9; width: 567px;\"><object id=\"A64060\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" 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=\"scaleMode\" value=\"showAll\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"external_make_id=E4zdm2Jw0CGe319T&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com&amp;partnerID=holidays\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/aka.zero.jibjab.com\/client\/zero\/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=E4zdm2Jw0CGe319T&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com&amp;partnerID=holidays\" \/><embed id=\"A64060\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/aka.zero.jibjab.com\/client\/zero\/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=E4zdm2Jw0CGe319T&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com&amp;partnerID=holidays\" wmode=\"transparent\" scaleMode=\"showAll\" quality=\"high\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" FlashVars=\"external_make_id=E4zdm2Jw0CGe319T&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com&amp;partnerID=holidays\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; width: 435px; margin-top: 6px;\">Personalize funny videos and birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/sendables.jibjab.com\/ecards\">eCards<\/a> at JibJab!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday, the day on which I must finally accept the inevitability of the Holiday Season, and stop muttering under my breath every time I hear a Christmas song on the radio. It&#8217;s here now, so I may as well grit my teeth, hold on tight, and ride this bronco through to the end. In [&hellip;]<\/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-2065","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\/2065","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=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}