{"id":12677,"date":"2010-01-08T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/08\/12677.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:01","slug":"songs-that-dont-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/08\/songs-that-dont-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs that don&#8217;t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<P>One of the advantages of the Holiday Season being over and done is that I am less tempted to actually write the Christmas Carol filks that come into my head during the four or five weeks that the Christmas Carols are playing. I mean, you get to the point where <I>everything<\/i> sounds like a carol, don&#8217;t you? Or is it just me?\n<p>On the other hand, I really wanted to find a way to work in a reference to &#8220;Frosty the <I>Shadchan<\/i>&#8221;, which I still think is a very funny thing. Not funny enough to actually write it out (something with a bride made out of snow, and a dowry of tinsel, and maybe something about the groom breaking an icicle goblet) but definitely funny enough to work into a list of Chanukah songs or something.\n<P>Another one I wanted to pass along (but not write verses for) is just a sentence my Perfect Non-Reader said when reporting on her schoolfriends&#8217; winter vacations, and the sentence just sounded like a song title: &#8220;Mohammed got a Wii for Christmas&#8221;\n<blockquote><P>Mohammed got a Wii for Christmas<br>Mohammed got a Wii for Christmas<br>Mohammed got a Wii for Christma-as<br>I wish I were just like him<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just saying.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian. \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger could also add: Body Parts in the Pickle Barrel, a song of Saint Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18970,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/18970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}