{"id":242,"date":"2005-11-09T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2005\/11\/09\/clay-aiken-christmas\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:13:41","slug":"clay-aiken-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/clay-aiken-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"clay aiken christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a Clay Aiken Christmas concert last night.<\/p>\n<p>It was SO CHEESY. And normally I *like* cheese! I mean, Clay&#8217;s voice was great but it was more of a musical than it was a concert (which I totally didn&#8217;t expect because I was given the tickets that day and had no idea that it was even holiday-themed). There was a cutesy story about a boy befriending a lonely old lady in his neighborhood, there was dancing (sadly, the dancers were really horrible)&#8230; it had the makings of a great show but it was just waaaayyy overdone. PLUS, Clay&#8217;s versions of most of the Christmas songs were sloooooow. I found myself yawning quite a few times. :\/<\/p>\n<p>There was a great joke about the little boy entering a talent show and winning second place. I totally didn&#8217;t understand why everyone was laughing so hard and then I realized the connection to Clay. HAH. I&#8217;m a little slow on the uptake.<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to enjoy the show (it&#8217;s Christmas! And you know me, I LOVE the holidays!). It&#8217;s too bad. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a Clay Aiken Christmas concert last night. It was SO CHEESY. And normally I *like* cheese! I mean, Clay&#8217;s voice was great but it was more of a musical than it was a concert (which I totally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/09\/clay-aiken-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}