{"id":8761,"date":"2011-12-24T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2011-12-24T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T03:41:00","slug":"how-the-grinch-stole-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8761","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How the Grinch Stole Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, there&#8217;s only one &#8220;must see&#8221; Christmas story each year. You can keep your Charlie Brown Christmas and Frosty and all the rest. There&#8217;s no secular Christmas story in the world that compares to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas!\" target=\"_blank\">How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a>.&#8221; Just be thankful I&#8217;m not around as you watch this, because I know the words to the songs &#8212; and I sing them with glee. I have the book version, too, just waiting to be read to the children I hope to have one day. I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy watching that old Grinchy Claus&#8217;s heart grow as much as I do each year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.220.ro\/embi\/97enhAcok8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, there&#8217;s only one &#8220;must see&#8221; Christmas story each year. You can keep your Charlie Brown Christmas and Frosty and all the rest. There&#8217;s no secular Christmas story in the world that compares to &#8220;How the Grinch Stole Christmas.&#8221; Just be thankful I&#8217;m not around as you watch this, because I know the words <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=8761\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-2hj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}