{"id":2648,"date":"2006-11-26T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2006\/11\/26\/its-the-beginning-of-the-end\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T16:51:11","slug":"its-the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2648","title":{"rendered":"its-the-beginning-of-the-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas songs have started edging their way on the radio.  Not the good kind.  The bad ones sung by so-called pop stars with pumped up tunes and doctored vocals.  The song is supposed to sound brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant.  Twenty years from now I&#8217;m not going to remember it.  No one will.  I will, however, remember this one:<br \/>\nSo this is Christmas<br \/>\nAnd what have you done<br \/>\nAnother year over<br \/>\nAnd a new one just begun<br \/>\nAnd so this is Christmas<br \/>\nI hope you have fun<br \/>\nThe near and the dear ones<br \/>\nThe old and the young<br \/>\n{Refrain}<br \/>\nA very merry Christmas<br \/>\nAnd a happy New Year<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s a good one<br \/>\nWithout any fear<br \/>\nAnd so this is Christmas (war is over)<br \/>\nFor weak and for strong (if you want it)<br \/>\nFor rich and the poor ones<br \/>\nThe road is so long<br \/>\nAnd so happy Christmas<br \/>\nFor black and for white<br \/>\nFor yellow and red ones<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s stop all the fight<br \/>\n{Refrain}<br \/>\nAnd so this is Christmas (war is over)<br \/>\nAnd what have we done (if you want it)<br \/>\nAnother year over<br \/>\nAnd a new one just begun<br \/>\nAnd so happy Christmas<br \/>\nI hope you have fun<br \/>\nThe near and the dear one<br \/>\nThe old and the young<br \/>\n{Refrain}<br \/>\nWar is over if you want it<br \/>\nWar is over now<br \/>\nHmm.  I love this Lennon song.  The arrangement is so pretty, but I had never really paid much attention to the words.  I wonder how much rotation this song will get this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas songs have started edging their way on the radio. Not the good kind. The bad ones sung by so-called pop stars with pumped up tunes and doctored vocals. The song is supposed to sound brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Twenty years from now I&#8217;m not going to remember it. No one will. I will, however, remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}