{"id":20628,"date":"2013-12-23T06:12:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T11:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20628"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:27:45","slug":"a-little-holiday-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20628","title":{"rendered":"A Little Holiday Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently listening to the radio and was rather startled to hear a Cocteau Twins cover of &#8220;Frosty the Snowman.&#8221;  I was even more startled to learn that it&#8217;s one of two Christmas classics they did, the other being &#8220;Winter Wonderland.&#8221;  They were originally released on a (now out of print and selling for insane prices on eBay) two-track CD entitled &#8220;Snow,&#8221; and can also be found on the second volume of their singles collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lullabies-Violaine-Singles-Extended-Plays\/dp\/B000DXSE52\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1387373028&#038;sr=8-2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lullabies to Violaine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Winter Wonderland,&#8221; with a fan-made video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"319\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0UQMZ3DddgM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0UQMZ3DddgM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a link to their version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pds_K2j3RKM\">Frosty<\/a> (just audio over a static picture).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I could make your holiday a little more surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently listening to the radio and was rather startled to hear a Cocteau Twins cover of &#8220;Frosty the Snowman.&#8221; I was even more startled to learn that it&#8217;s one of two Christmas classics they did, the other being &#8220;Winter Wonderland.&#8221; They were originally released on a (now out of print and selling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20631,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628\/revisions\/20631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}