{"id":6106,"date":"2008-12-24T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2008-12-24T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:47:10","slug":"if-you-build-it-santa-claus-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/if-you-build-it-santa-claus-will-come\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Build it, Santa Claus will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/A3C181590DD757D8\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/A3C181590DD757D8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twas_the_Night_Before_Christmas_(TV_special)\" class=\"external external_icon\">Twas the Night Before Christmas<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA curious bit of animation made in 1974 spun around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carols.org.uk\/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">the poem<\/a> of the same name. In a world where mice and humans get along, and even work together, Santa Claus is pissed.  An angry letter addressed to our favorite North Pole resident makes Junctiontown the Cuba of Christmas, as far as Mr Claus is concerned.  Can The Clockmaker&#8217;s invention(a big honking clock that plays music at the stroke of midnight) save the town from disappointment, lack of laughter and pony-less little girls? Probably.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8flbm7Av0QI\" class=\"external external_icon\">Art Carney &#8211; &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas &#8211; 1954<\/a><br \/>\nWhile searching for the gem from Kid Groonk&#8217;s childhood, this odd bit was found. A beatnik approach to the classic poem.  i can&#8217;t say that I like it, but I *can* say it&#8217;s unique enough to give it a go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas the Night Before Christmas A curious bit of animation made in 1974 spun around the poem of the same name. In a world where mice and humans get along, and even work together, Santa Claus is pissed. An angry letter addressed to our favorite North Pole resident makes Junctiontown the Cuba of Christmas, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,48,14,7],"tags":[735,98,416,736,737,558,738,4927,125],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-holiday","category-usa","category-video","tag-animated-in-japan","tag-animation","tag-christmas-2008","tag-mice-and-humans-working-together","tag-poison-pen-attack","tag-rankin-bass","tag-santa-claus-is-angry","tag-video","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}