{"id":2272,"date":"2010-12-17T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2010-12-17T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:00:27","slug":"be-emissions-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Be Emissions Free&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tSJMSnj6UUM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tSJMSnj6UUM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nSo, I love my job and especially because I&#8217;m not stuck listening to Xmas music all frigging day long, but sometimes I do hit the #4 preset radio station when I&#8217;m in the car. It&#8217;s the preset for the all Christmas music station (they usually play &#8220;the greatest of the &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s and today!&#8221;). And usually I get there smack in the middle of something awful (I think I have written enough about exactly which Christmas songs make me want to forcibly remove my own ears, so I will refrain) but the other day I came upon Elton John&#8217;s &#8220;Step into Christmas&#8221;. The chorus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Step into Christmas<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s join together<br \/>\nWe can watch the snow fall forever and ever<br \/>\nEat, drink and be merry<br \/>\nCome along with me<br \/>\nStep into Christmas<br \/>\nThe admission&#8217;s free<\/p>\n<p>But of course, back at the Old Job, I heard that song 2 or more times a day pretty regularly. And it reminded me that Every. Single. Time. I thought Elton was singing &#8220;Be emissions freeee!&#8221; and of course, Every. Single. Time I would then think, &#8220;WTF? Did they even know what emissions were back then?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I love my job and especially because I&#8217;m not stuck listening to Xmas music all frigging day long, but sometimes I do hit the #4 preset radio station when I&#8217;m in the car. It&#8217;s the preset for the all Christmas music station (they usually play &#8220;the greatest of the &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s and today!&#8221;). And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-cheesecake-city","category-reading-writing-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}