{"id":62,"date":"2008-12-10T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:34:05","slug":"happy-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/candle.jpg\"  align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" title=\"Christmas candle\" alt=\"Christmas Candle\" \/>A happy and melodious Christmas to all our readers! As a follow up to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=24\">last year&#8217;s entry on Christmas poetry<\/a> (which you can read about in more detail on the Literary Connections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/Christmas.html\">Christmas page<\/a>), I&#8217;ve just noticed that last December&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/womanshour\/02\/2007_50_tue.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Woman&#8217;s Hour interview<\/a> with Carol Ann Duffy about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchestercarols.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Carols<\/a> is still available on the BBC site. The Manchester Carols also feature in Aled Jones&#8217;s Radio 3 programme on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00g055j\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Music for Choirs<\/a> on 14 Dec 2008 at 19:00. Happy listening &#8211; and I hope you enjoy some singing of your own too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Christmas listening &#8211; poetry and music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,22],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-christmas","tag-laureate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}