{"id":941,"date":"2010-12-29T19:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-12-29T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:45:20","slug":"limited-musical-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Limited Musical Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/o-holy-night-over-and-over.html\">2010 Christmas song post<\/a> on &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221;, Ann Althouse links back to her <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/white-christmas.html\">2004 Christmas song post<\/a>, in which she compared 18 versions of &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221;, beginning with Elvis&#8217;s, &#8220;the best&#8221; and imitated by seveal of the others. Although she included a couple of country singers, she somehow missed Ernest Tubb, who first made the song popular in 1949. Apparently, for Althouse, music starts with Elvis. I haven&#8217;t heard any of the other 17 versions she lists, much less the 65+ other versions <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Christmas\">Wikipedia<\/a> estimates to have been made, but Tubb&#8217;s version seems much better than Elvis&#8217;s. Perhaps I should say &#8220;versions&#8221;, since he recorded it at least twice. The later one is much better in that it omits the backup singers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her 2010 Christmas song post on &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221;, Ann Althouse links back to her 2004 Christmas song post, in which she compared 18 versions of &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221;, beginning with Elvis&#8217;s, &#8220;the best&#8221; and imitated by seveal of the others. Although she included a couple of country singers, she somehow missed Ernest Tubb, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}