{"id":305,"date":"2007-12-21T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/hey-america-christmas-time\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T22:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T02:26:11","slug":"hey-america-christmas-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/hey-america-christmas-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey America: It&#8217;s Christmas Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bronx-burning-dvd.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/bronx-burning-dvd.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"331\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" \/>I pretty much have next week off from my other blogging gig, so I thought I would take advantage of my free time to hunker down with the 5-disc deluxe edition DVD of <i>The Bronx Is Burning<\/i>, ESPN&#8217;s adaptation of the Jonathan Mahler book about the 1977 New York Yankees. You couldn&#8217;t pay me to wear the Yankees &#8220;World Series Championship&#8221; hat that comes with it, but the extended interviews with Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner should be worth a look, along with all the ESPN promo clips. And, heck, put Oliver Platt <i>and<\/i> John Turturro in a miniseries and I&#8217;m pretty much sold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"children-turin-CDs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/children-turin-CDs.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"align=\"right\" \/>Then, when my eyes get tired, I&#8217;ve still got most of the 8-CD unabridged audiobook of Christopher Lee reading J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s <i>The Children of Hurin<\/i>, imported from England to listen to. Which is funny, because&#8212;well, I loved the films and all, but I wouldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m the biggest Tolkien fan in the world; read the books when I was in junior high, thought they were fine, never really looked back. But, come on&#8212;<i>Christopher Lee<\/i>. So that&#8217;s fun. And between that and the DVD, I ought to be suitably distracted until 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pretty much have next week off from my other blogging gig, so I thought I would take advantage of my free time to hunker down with the 5-disc deluxe edition DVD of The Bronx Is Burning, ESPN&#8217;s adaptation of the Jonathan Mahler book about the 1977 New York Yankees. You couldn&#8217;t pay me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}