{"id":27315,"date":"2020-12-14T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27315"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:11:40","slug":"kind-of-not-a-christmas-song-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/14\/kind-of-not-a-christmas-song-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Of Not A Christmas Song At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morten Harket, &#8220;A Kind of a Christmas Card&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IA662yAg_ag\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does that sound like the lead singer of a-ha to you?  And to be honest, I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to make of the poet-narrator, as <em>he<\/em> sings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All you folks back home<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never tell you this<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not supposed to know<br \/>\nWhere your daughter is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just think of the girl I used to be<br \/>\nYou were my age once, mama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is he singing about the daughter?  <em>Was he the daughter?<\/em>  In this timeline, the song from the 1995 album <em>Wild Seed<\/em> is smack dab between &#8220;Lola&#8221; and &#8220;Take a Walk on the Wild Side&#8221; and 2020, man.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the album sounds more like the voice of a-ha, though, and it occurs to me that although I have his first English solo effort (the aforementioned <em>Wild Seed<\/em>, he has released six solo albums, all the way up to 2014.  Perhaps I will think to get them when I am feeling profligate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morten Harket, &#8220;A Kind of a Christmas Card&#8221;: Does that sound like the lead singer of a-ha to you? And to be honest, I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to make of the poet-narrator, as he sings: All you folks back home I&#8217;ll never tell you this You&#8217;re not supposed to know Where your daughter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27317,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27315\/revisions\/27317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}