{"id":7868,"date":"2011-12-24T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2011-12-24T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T02:23:21","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/24\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you choose to celebrate, everybody. And if you don&#8217;t choose to celebrate for any particular reason, feel free to celebrate for no reason at all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a legitimately touching Xmas song, Tim Minchin&#8217;s <em>White Wine in the Sun<\/em> (indirectly via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2011\/12\/24\/open-thread-merry-antipodean-xmas\/\">Balloon Juice<\/a>). As an Australian, he has a warmer image of the season than we Northerners.  This isn&#8217;t the one that got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timminchin.com\/2011\/12\/22\/im-not-on-the-jonathan-ross-show\/\">censored from British TV<\/a>, which is more amusing than heartwarming, but also worth a listen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_fCNvZqpa-7Q\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fCNvZqpa-7Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fCNvZqpa-7Q\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M27S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-12-13T08:16:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_fCNvZqpa-7Q\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fCNvZqpa-7Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fCNvZqpa-7Q\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fCNvZqpa-7Q\/0.jpg\" alt=\"White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"A sentimental song about Christmas. This version is taken from the Australian &#039;Ready For This?&#039; DVD. Every year, all proceeds from the sale of (either version of) this song during the months of November, December and January, go to an organisation which supports children and\/or adults on the autism spectrum. This year, 2024, that will be Aspect in Australia. If you have it already, you may fancy gifting it via iTunes, along with the socks, jocks or chocs\u2026 or you can donate directly to Aspect here: https:\/\/www.autismspectrum.org.au\/donate\/ December 2012: &quot;It&#039;s been six years since I wrote my little tribute to Christmas, and I&#039;ve finally recorded a studio version. Huzzah!&quot; You can download it internationally from iTunes here: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/white-wine-in-the-sun-single\/id583324717 and for &quot;non-apple people&quot;, it&#039;s on Amazon (UK) here: http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/White-Wine-in-the-Sun\/dp\/B00AHK84ME\/ and Amazon (US) here: http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/White-Wine-in-the-Sun\/dp\/B00AHI77UG\/. tx\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you choose to celebrate, everybody. And if you don&#8217;t choose to celebrate for any particular reason, feel free to celebrate for no reason at all. Here&#8217;s a legitimately touching Xmas song, Tim Minchin&#8217;s White Wine in the Sun (indirectly via Balloon Juice). As an Australian, he has a warmer image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}