{"id":3248,"date":"2008-12-16T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/16\/mommy-kissing-santa-claus-and-etc\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:14:12","slug":"mommy-kissing-santa-claus-and-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/16\/mommy-kissing-santa-claus-and-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy, Kissing Santa Claus, and etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 One question:<\/p>\n<p>That Christmas song, &#8220;I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Would\u00c2\u00a0somebody maybe parse through the lyrics and find the answer to the question, &#8220;Who is Mommy kissing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is she kissing Daddy?\u00c2\u00a0 OR\u00c2\u00a0a man she is cheating on with daddy?<\/p>\n<p>Hearing Christmas songs, and the sort of unrelenting melancholy and depression and dysfunction\u00c2\u00a0that are\u00c2\u00a0the twentieth century standards (&#8220;<em>I&#8217;ll be home for Christmas<\/em>, and etc&#8230;. <em><strong>If only in my Dreams<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;), I automatically suspect the worst.\u00c2\u00a0 Mommy is having an affair, and has a thing for red stockings.\u00c2\u00a0 Mommy and Daddy are planning\u00c2\u00a0a divorce.\u00c2\u00a0 They will break the news to the singer of this song as he&#8217;s distracted by all the toys he&#8217;s opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 One question: That Christmas song, &#8220;I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus&#8221;? Would\u00c2\u00a0somebody maybe parse through the lyrics and find the answer to the question, &#8220;Who is Mommy kissing?&#8221; Is she kissing Daddy?\u00c2\u00a0 OR\u00c2\u00a0a man she is cheating on with daddy? Hearing Christmas songs, and the sort of unrelenting melancholy and depression and dysfunction\u00c2\u00a0that are\u00c2\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}