{"id":2148,"date":"2019-12-01T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:47:25","slug":"christmas-classic-or-birdwatching-by-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Christmas classic, or, Birdwatching by-product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jingle_Bells\">&#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;<\/a>, also known as &#8220;One Horse Open Sleigh&#8221;, is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822\u20131893) and copyrighted under the title &#8216;One Horse Open Sleigh&#8217; on September 16, 1857. The song has been translated into many languages. The Singing Dogs version was originally created by <a href=\"http:\/\/home6.inet.tele.dk\/abekat\/dogs.html\">Danish recording engineer Carl Weissmann who discovered, while editing the sounds of barking dogs out of birdsong recordings, that perhaps dogs can sing as well.<\/a>. Awesome guitar solo added later, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jFTXK1QDoYY&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jFTXK1QDoYY&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jingle Bells performed by the Singing Dogs<br \/>\nWords and Music by James Lord Pierpont<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;, also known as &#8220;One Horse Open Sleigh&#8221;, is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822\u20131893) and copyrighted under the title &#8216;One Horse Open Sleigh&#8217; on September 16, 1857. The song has been translated[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}