{"id":800,"date":"2008-12-09T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T06:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:49:35","slug":"christmastime-caroling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/12\/christmastime-caroling\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmastime – Caroling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Deck the Halls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Deck the Halls” by Mannheim Steamroller is today’s song pick. We heard it on the radio a few times one year, and I really liked it, but had no idea who it was by. I think my mom was finally able to catch one time the name of the artist. And if I’m remembering this correctly, I believe I was able to find it on Amazon and use the audio preview to confirm that it was the correct song. We soon had a copy of Mannheim’s Christmas<\/em> album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caroling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as I can remember, we only had carolers come to our door once. It was our neighbor and her Girl Scout troop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In high school, my Spanish teacher brought in his guitar before our winter break started and we spent a class period going around to the other classrooms singing holiday songs. I’m pretty sure I remember us singing “Feliz Navidad” and seeing my teacher really get into it. When we were singing to a chemistry class, one of the girls gave the teacher a paper flower or ribbon or something of that nature. This is because he had told us in an earlier class that growing up in Mexico, he participated in a tradition where guys would sing outside of a girl’s window and then the girl would give the guy a ribbon or something like that if she liked him. He never got one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was in first grade, I had the only speaking part of a first grader in the Christmas play. I still remember my line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Gee, these decorations look really neat. Now all we need is a star.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On my cue, a star lit up above the stage and we sang another song. Then Linus came out and explained what Christmas is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9th in a <\/em>series of Christmasy things<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deck the Halls “Deck the Halls” by Mannheim Steamroller is today’s song pick. We heard it on the radio a few times one year, and I really liked it, but had no idea who it was by. I think my mom was finally able to catch one time the name of the artist. And if … Continue reading Christmastime – Caroling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}