{"id":83508,"date":"2018-12-24T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83508"},"modified":"2018-12-15T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:27:15","slug":"christmas-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83508","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83510\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83510\" class=\"size-large wp-image-83510\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg?resize=497%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg?resize=497%2C333&amp;ssl=1 497w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/White-House-Christmas-from-WGN-TV.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Christmas decoration theme \u2013 American Dreams. Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Merry<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Christmas<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Aint<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hell<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">!<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You guys come up with the themes and focus for this thread. In the meantime, here are some Christmas\/Holiday music that was performed during the Medieval Period and the Renaissance:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Medieval Carol &#8220;Gaudete&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1NgHonWNE0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong> London Cello Orchestra, The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Simon<br \/>\n<strong>Album<\/strong>: A Cello Christmas<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Personent Hodie:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTz_rcolwyA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MUSIC: Andrea Alonso \/ Celtic Song &#8211; A Celtic Christmas CD<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As I Lay on Yoolis Night|English Medieval Christmas Song:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7QlxvTIU6Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist:<\/strong>\u00a0Martin Best Ensemble, The<br \/>\n<strong>Album:<\/strong>\u00a0Christmas Medieval Music<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Over an hour of medieval Christmas music; Medieval Carols, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sc-Ep9KP5Ww?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Various artists listed under video.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Have fun this Christmas, enjoy the visits, gifts, feasts and drinking, but be safe and don&#8217;t be a stranger here. Knock yourself silly with enjoyment and posting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas This Aint Hell!\u00a0 You guys come up with the themes and focus for this thread. In the meantime, here are some Christmas\/Holiday music that was performed during the Medieval Period and the Renaissance: Medieval Carol &#8220;Gaudete&#8221;: Artist: London Cello Orchestra, The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Simon Album: A Cello Christmas Personent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-83508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-lIU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}