{"id":3010,"date":"2013-01-25T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2013-01-25T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:28:57","slug":"dropkick-murphys-lovely-little-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/25\/dropkick-murphys-lovely-little-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropkick Murphys&#8217; lovely little Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am way late to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dropkick_Murphys\">Dropkick Murphys<\/a> party, I basically just discovered them to my great dismay.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been experiencing\u00c2\u00a0Celtic music fatigue of late, having absolutely listened to death all of the Great Big Sea, Pogues, Stan Rogers, etc, that I could take over the past 10 years or more.\u00c2\u00a0 But to call these guys just Celtic is not correct, they are almost more of a Punk band than anything, at least on their latest album, Signed and Sealed in Blood.\u00c2\u00a0 I highly recommend you check them out.<\/p>\n<p>The standout song that made me laugh right out loud today is ironically a Christmas song that was released last month, but I missed it altogether.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s absolutely a spiritual successor to the Pogues&#8217; Fairytale of New York, and it&#8217;s just hilarious.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s just one lyric to listen for in the video below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My sisters are wackjobs I wish I had none<\/p>\n<p>Their husbands are losers and so are their sons<\/p>\n<p>My nephew&#8217;s a horrible wise little twit<\/p>\n<p>He once gave me a nice gift wrapped box full of shit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh man, it&#8217;s the real deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Have a look at the completely awesome video and enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 Go out and buy this album, these guys deserve your money.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am way late to the Dropkick Murphys party, I basically just discovered them to my great dismay.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been experiencing\u00c2\u00a0Celtic music fatigue of late, having absolutely listened to death all of the Great Big Sea, Pogues, Stan Rogers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/25\/dropkick-murphys-lovely-little-christmas-song\/\">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":{"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":[3,176,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-shout-outs","category-video-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-My","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}