{"id":467,"date":"2004-09-30T10:13:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/09\/30\/merry-christmas-everybody\/"},"modified":"2004-09-30T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T14:13:48","slug":"merry-christmas-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/09\/30\/merry-christmas-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a962'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>There&#8217;s a commercial I&#8217;ve been seeing on television lately for an Elmo toy. You may have seen it: Elmo is singing the Village People&#8217;s YMCA&#8230;but spelling E.L.M.O instead of Y.M.C.A. Anyway, if you&#8217;ve seen the ad you may recall that it starts off as if at a concert and the audience is chanting EL-MO, EL-MO, EL-MO. However, the first time I saw it, I couldn&#8217;t understand what they were saying and I could have sworn that this children&#8217;s toy commercial was actually saying &#8220;HELL NO, HELL NO&#8221;. I wonder if they&#8217;re aware of that?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anway, the fact that I&#8217;m beginning to see advertisements for toys makes me realize that the Christmas season is just around the corner. In no time, I expect to start seeing commercials for the Time\/Life Christmas album (which I own). Those ads always put me in the mood. Sometimes you just need a little bit of Andy Williams and Bing Crobsy to put a swing in your step. I&#8217;m ready.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a commercial I&#8217;ve been seeing on television lately for an Elmo toy. You may have seen it: Elmo is singing the Village People&#8217;s YMCA&#8230;but spelling E.L.M.O instead of Y.M.C.A. Anyway, if you&#8217;ve seen the ad you may recall that it starts off as if at a concert and the audience is chanting EL-MO, EL-MO, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}