{"id":24090,"date":"2014-12-24T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24090"},"modified":"2014-12-25T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T17:12:22","slug":"the-bestest-most-honest-christmas-carol-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24090","title":{"rendered":"The Bestest, Most Honest Christmas Carol Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of those who are not huddled around a dead tree this evening or digging through piles of colorfully wrapped packages looking for the ones addressed to you; for the cynics who won&#8217;t accept the notion that the birth of an alleged savior is an excuse to exchange material goods or fruitcakes that nobody likes; for outcasts and rebels and nonbelievers who are puzzled by the greed and commercialism of a season that is sold as one of peace and goodwill&#8230;Here is snippet from the classic Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Misc\/dickens-christmas-carol.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Carol\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24091\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is Miles Davis and Bob Dorough performing the heartwarming traditional Christmas ballad Blue Xmas:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnRmHszDaa0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* * * H A P P Y * H O L I D A Y S * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of those who are not huddled around a dead tree this evening or digging through piles of colorfully wrapped packages looking for the ones addressed to you; for the cynics who won&#8217;t accept the notion that the birth of an alleged savior is an excuse to exchange material goods or fruitcakes that nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Bestest, Most Honest Christmas Carol Ever","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-24090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6gy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30473,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30473","url_meta":{"origin":24090,"position":0},"title":"Blue Xmas: A Christmas Carol For Cynics, Skeptics, And Other Swingin&#8217; Realists","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/25\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Christmas is celebrated all over the world as a season that embodies the hopes for peace and the desires of people to share their compassion and generosity with all of humanity. 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