{"id":236,"date":"2008-12-24T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/12\/24\/soulful-christmas\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:02","slug":"soulful-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/12\/24\/soulful-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulful Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it\u2019s Xmas Eve, and lots of last-minute giftwrapping and Xmas preparations here. Very best holiday wishes to you and yours!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a YouTube holiday gift to you before I vanish in a flurry of giftwrap and scotch-tape. Every Xmas for the last 12 or 13 years, one CD is a constant standby for me \u2014 JAMES BROWN\u2019S FUNKY CHRISTMAS. You can\u2019t miss with tunes like \u201cGo Power at Christmas Time\u201d, \u201cSanta Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto\u201d, and \u201cTit for Tat (Ain\u2019t No Taking Back)\u201d. Trust me \u2014 you won\u2019t find a better holiday disc than this, folks. Need proof? I present \u201cSoulful Christmas\u201d by James Brown, with a priceless montage video of JB live in Boston, 1968.<\/p>\n

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Well, it\u2019s Xmas Eve, and lots of last-minute giftwrapping and Xmas preparations here. Very best holiday wishes to you and yours! Here\u2019s a YouTube holiday gift to you before I vanish in a flurry of giftwrap and scotch-tape. Every Xmas for the last 12 or 13 years, one CD is a constant standby for me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-3O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}