{"id":30946,"date":"2019-12-24T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T01:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30946"},"modified":"2019-12-26T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T07:03:10","slug":"briefly-join-me-tonight-in-watching-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30946","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Join me tonight in watching \u2018How the Grinch Stole Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Grinch-carving-feast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30947\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Grinch-carving-feast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Grinch-carving-feast.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Grinch-carving-feast-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas.\u201d The 1966 animated version is the only one I recognize as faithful to the wonderful original book by Dr. Seuss, so don\u2019t even mention the newer ones to me. If you\u2019d like to watch this classic with me tonight, here\u2019s a copy you can view online or download, but the link will be live <em>only<\/em> for tonight. <em>(No longer live. Sorry.)<\/em> I hope you enjoy it as much as I do and I also hope it makes you as happy as it makes me. If you hear someone singing along to the songs \u2014 quite badly, most likely \u2014 that will be me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas.\u201d The 1966 animated version is the only one I recognize as faithful to the wonderful original book by Dr. Seuss, so don\u2019t even mention the newer ones to me. If you\u2019d like to watch this classic with me tonight, here\u2019s a copy <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30946\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-838","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30961,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30946\/revisions\/30961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}