{"id":913,"date":"2008-12-26T03:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T03:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/26\/a-geeky-christmas-to-yall\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:45:03","slug":"a-geeky-christmas-to-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/26\/a-geeky-christmas-to-yall","title":{"rendered":"A geeky Christmas to y&#8217;all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone&#8217;s trying to be clever and put some cool christmasy linkage to cool vids, etc., I thought I&#8217;d share this apt song from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\">Jonathan Coulton<\/a> to represent my fellow geeks.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/72855316&#038;color=ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=false\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!--\/\/-->\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><br \/>\nThis year has been a little crazy for the Andersons.<br \/>\nYou may recall we had some trouble last year.<br \/>\nThe robot council had us banished to an asteroid.<br \/>\nThat hasn&#8217;t undermined our holiday cheer.<br \/>\nAnd we know it&#8217;s almost Christmas from the marks we make on the wall.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s our favorite time of year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHORUS<\/strong><br \/>\nMerry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime,<br \/>\nwhere we&#8217;re working in a mine for our robot overlords.<br \/>\nDid I say <em>overlords?<\/em> I meant <em>protectors.<\/em><br \/>\nMerry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong><br \/>\nOn every corner there&#8217;s a giant metal Santa Claus who watches over us with glowing red eyes.<br \/>\nThey carry weapons and they know if you&#8217;ve been bad or good.<br \/>\nNot everybody&#8217;s good but everyone tries.<br \/>\nAnd the rocks outside the airlock exude ammonia-scented snow.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like a Winter wonderland.<\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><br \/>\n<em>SOLO<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>III<\/strong><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all the family news that we&#8217;re allowed to talk about.<br \/>\nWe really hope you&#8217;ll come and visit us soon.<br \/>\nI mean we&#8217;re literally begging you to visit us.<br \/>\nAnd make it quick before they <code>&lt;MESSAGE REDACTED&gt;<\/code><br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s time for Christmas dinner &#8211; I think the robots sent us a pie!<br \/>\nYou know I love my soylent green.<\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone&#8217;s trying to be clever and put some cool christmasy linkage to cool vids, etc., I thought I&#8217;d share this apt song from Jonathan Coulton to represent my fellow geeks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[803],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}