{"id":700,"date":"2005-12-23T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:51:15","slug":"a-gene-autry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/12\/a-gene-autry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"_A Gene Autry Christmas_"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Gene Autry. &#8220;The Singing Cowboy&#8221;&#8211;I sometimes think how the world would be different if America had chosen to embrace Autry instead of John Wayne. If a seranading, happy, snappy-dressed Autry could have been the standard of manhood instead of the Taciturn grunting John Wayne, the world would be so much more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Autry  made the hit &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&#8221;, so of course he would have a Christmas album. He had his hand in two other top christmas songs: &#8220;Frosty the Snowman&#8221; and &#8220;Here comes Santa Claus&#8221;, taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascap.com\/press\/2005\/120105_holidaysongs.html\">three spots on the top 20<\/a> most played Christmas songs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great album from a great artist. Merry Christmas everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Gene Autry. &#8220;The Singing Cowboy&#8221;&#8211;I sometimes think how the world would be different if America had chosen to embrace Autry instead of John Wayne. If a seranading, happy, snappy-dressed Autry could have been the standard of manhood instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/12\/a-gene-autry-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}