{"id":2734,"date":"2012-12-24T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2012-12-24T00:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T00:27:05","slug":"christmas-eve-videos-deck-the-halls-with-boughs-of-longboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/24\/christmas-eve-videos-deck-the-halls-with-boughs-of-longboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Videos: &#8220;Deck the Halls (with Boughs of Longboards)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we are again&#8230; another Christmas Eve. And for the first time in a very long time indeed, it arrives to find me feeling some degree of contentment. Against all odds, I&#8217;ve finished all my shopping early and even managed to get everything wrapped a couple days ago. I dodged a bullet at work and have an entire week off to enjoy. I have nothing on my agenda today (I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll go see <i>The Hobbit<\/i>, actually&#8230;) And I&#8217;ve realized that, as eventful and traumatic as this year has been in many ways, I&#8217;m in a much better situation now than I was 12 months ago. It&#8217;s not in my nature to say &#8220;life is good&#8221; &#8212; that just invites a downturn, if you know what I mean &#8212; but for right now, today, this afternoon&#8230; it sure ain&#8217;t bad. So I wanted to post a little something that reflects my current, uncharacteristically upbeat mood&#8230; and what better for that than a surf-rock-tinged version of &#8220;Deck the Halls&#8221; by none other than my main man, Rick Springfield? This is from <em>Christmas with You<\/em>, the holiday CD he released a few years back, and it&#8217;s tremendous fun. Honestly, I wish he&#8217;d do an album of nothing but covers of the &#8217;60s rock he so obviously loves (he occasionally does a really kick-ass version of Clapton&#8217;s &#8220;Crossroads&#8221; in his live shows, for example). Maybe one day&#8230; and in the meantime, we have this (watch for the dolphin at about 0:44!):<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JEw_LP04kVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone else out there is in a good place this year, too&#8230; merry Christmas, happy holidays, peace to all.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just for a little bonus:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnOBggLe0tY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It just wouldn&#8217;t be Christmas without a peek at <i><a title=\"That Sweater\u2026 Dear God, That Sweater\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1220\">that sweater<\/a><\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><b>Related posts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Christmas With You\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1234\">Christmas with You<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bennion\u2019s Favorite Christmas Songs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=791\">Bennion&#8217;s Favorite Christmas Songs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we are again&#8230; another Christmas Eve. And for the first time in a very long time indeed, it arrives to find me feeling some degree of contentment. Against all odds, I&#8217;ve finished all my shopping early and even managed to get everything wrapped a couple days ago. I dodged a bullet at work [&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-2734","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\/2734","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=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}