{"id":1165,"date":"2007-12-11T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.kcmarketer.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2007-12-11T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T20:27:00","slug":"the-little-drummer-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"The Little Drummer Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Baby Jesus.  First, he gets gold, a gift his non-materialistic world view  could never appreciate.  Then, he gets frankincense and myrrh, incenses he would only be able to appreciate in his later, hippie years.  Finally, he gets bombarded with a surely horrifying, erratic drum performance from the Little Drummer Boy.  Last I checked, a pounding drum doesn&#8217;t exactly provide a soothing soundtrack for a newborn baby or his parents. <\/p>\n<p>And how delusional is the Little Drummer Boy?  Just look at the final lyrics of his song.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum<br \/>Me and my drum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s smiling because you stopped the incessant flailing of your limbs at your cheap drum, Little Drummer Boy.  Shame on you.  You&#8217;re lucky Jesus is pretty laid back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Baby Jesus. First, he gets gold, a gift his non-materialistic world view could never appreciate. Then, he gets frankincense and myrrh, incenses he would only be able to appreciate in his later, hippie years. Finally, he gets bombarded with a surely horrifying, erratic drum performance from the Little Drummer Boy. Last I checked, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,112,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays","category-music"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-iN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}