{"id":1395,"date":"2016-12-23T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T05:15:13","slug":"fifty-years-of-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years of a classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fire.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1396\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fire-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"fire\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fire-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fire.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 50 years ago tomorrow that some genius at station WPIX had the brilliant idea to show, instead of regular programming on Christmas Eve, a continuous loop of a crackling fire accompanied by holiday music. This to accommodate apartment-dwelling New Yorkers who might not have real-life fireplaces of their own.<\/p>\n<p>That opening was not sarcastic. It really was a genius idea and was an instant classic in New York, eventually spreading to other cities and now enjoyed everywhere as a Christmas institution. Yes, both Netflix and the &#8220;On Demand&#8221; feature on your TV offer several versions of the &#8220;yule log,&#8221; and I&#8217;m sure there are other providers out there doing the same. My favorite these days is the Netflix option that doesn&#8217;t even have music\u2014just the crackling and\u00a0pip-popping of a gentle fire.<\/p>\n<p>Yup. Living in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, everyone, and to all a cool yule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 50 years ago tomorrow that some genius at station WPIX had the brilliant idea to show, instead of regular programming on Christmas Eve, a continuous loop of a crackling fire accompanied by holiday music. This to accommodate apartment-dwelling &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}