{"id":1213,"date":"2006-12-23T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T03:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2006-12-23T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T03:45:40","slug":"santa-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Santa baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dick’s better half is talking about Christmas songs<\/a>, and it takes me back.<\/p>\n

I love Christmas, and I love Christmas music, Christmas specials, everything. I’m past the age that the presents mean anything, except to the kids, but to me, the music, the specials, the shows.. it’s all comfort memories. <\/p>\n

How the Grinch stole Christmas. Charlie Brown Christmas. A Christmas Story. The Andy Williams Christmas Special. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. “it’s a wonderful life”. ‘Miracle on 34th street” ” A Christmas Carol”(the Alastair Sim one, in which Alastair Sim looks like many of my brothers-in-law.)<\/p>\n

And the music. Burl ives singing “Holly Jolly Christmas”. Andy Williams “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”. Eartha Kitt. Boston Pops. <\/p>\n

I remember lying in my bed at night, three or four days before Christmas, listening to the all-request Christmas music from WTAS crete, while watching the lights in my window blink. I could look outside and see the lights on the rest of the neighborhood homes, and think about the weekend to come. We’d drive down to my aunt & uncle’s house (mom’s sister) and celebrate there, food, candy, treats, big meals, long afternoons sitting in front of the TV set, playing mini golf in the basement with my cousins. Then we’d go to the other aunt & uncle (dad’s sister) and spend new years, mom& dad playing bingo & drinking till the wee hours with rosie and calvin, and the kids all being rambunctious in the house until we passed out from exhaustion. <\/p>\n

Sometimes we wouldn’t get home till january fifth or so, if we had the time off school and dad had the vacation time. If the weather was particularly nasty, we might leave early so as to get through the snow. More than one year we drove in total white out, hundreds of nearly immobile cars traipsing north on US 41 at eleven at night. Mom and sis peeing in coffee cans, dad and I standing in the snow peeing, as we inched along, mile after laborious mile. And then, when we got home, another round of presents, that were just too much to take along with in the car. One year I got a new Schwinn. Another, a Silvertone arch top guitar like the one dad had played in his youth. Mostly it was stuff i needed- clothes, shoes. Sometimes a treat thrown in, like my first camera. Sometimes a couple of books. At one time I had a whole bucketload of the Tom Swift Jr books, which I wish I had today. <\/p>\n

Anyway, all good memories. I thank god for those memories now, and wish I could give good memories to those I know who had none. <\/p>\n

Take care to make good memories for your children, if you can. Make sure they have good memories to look back on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dick’s better half is talking about Christmas songs, and it takes me back. I love Christmas, and I love Christmas music, Christmas specials, everything. I’m past the age that the presents mean anything, except to the kids, but to me, the music, the specials, the shows.. it’s all comfort memories. How the Grinch stole Christmas. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}