{"id":18677,"date":"2015-12-24T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2015-12-21T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:11:08","slug":"burl-ives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/12\/24\/burl-ives\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: Burl Ives Shrugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Holly-Jolly-Christmas-Single-Version\/dp\/B000WLNWGG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=frankcurio-20\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HollyJollyChristmas.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives\" title=\"A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>Who is Burl Ives? When he says that we should have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Holly-Jolly-Christmas-Single-Version\/dp\/B000WLNWGG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=frankcurio-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Holly Jolly Christmas<\/a>, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to sing his songs not against his enemies but against those who need them most? Why does he sing his hardest battle against the woman he loves?<\/p>\n<p>You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling song that plays each Christmas in the lives of the amazing men and women at this blog. You will discover why a musical genius becomes a worthless playboy&#8230; why a great folk singer is working for his own destruction&#8230; why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph&#8230; why a beautiful woman who produces children&#8217;s Christmas specials falls in love with the man she has sworn to replace with Paul Soles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fXE7msZvMcc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"copyright\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_Holly_Jolly_Christmas_-_Burl_Ives.jpg#\/media\/File:A_Holly_Jolly_Christmas_-_Burl_Ives.jpg\">A Holly Jolly Christmas &#8211; Burl Ives<\/a>&#8221; by Source (<a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:NFCC#4\" title=\"Wikipedia:NFCC\" class=\"mw-redirect\">WP:NFCC#4<\/a>). Licensed under <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_Holly_Jolly_Christmas_-_Burl_Ives.jpg\" title=\"Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline\">Fair use<\/a> via <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Burl Ives? When he says that we should have a Holly Jolly Christmas, is he a destroyer or a liberator? 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