{"id":383,"date":"2015-12-24T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=383"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:22:11","slug":"the-figgy-pudding-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2015\/12\/the-figgy-pudding-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"The Figgy Pudding Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"[play]\"\/The Figgy Pudding Incident<\/a> (2015)<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed this piece of music, please consider donating to the Albert Kennedy Trust<\/a>, who work with homeless LGBT young people.<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago, my wife made me aware of the second and third verses of ‘We Wish you a Merry Christmas’, in which the singers demand ‘So bring us a figgy pudding and bring it out here.’ Followed by ‘We won’t go until we’ve got some, so bring it out here!’<\/p>\n

This was my favorite carol when I was very young, as there seemed to be no constraints on how loudly we were allowed to shout\/sing. With the lyrics in mind, it’s clear this is because it’s a song about mob rule and the medieval version of Christmas, where many social rules were temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n

The sound is Karplus Strong and the melody is a slightly mis-typed version of We Wish you a Merry Christmas, looping, gradually increasing in length and then variations.<\/p>\n

This track is part of a larger project, \u201912 days of Crimbo\u2019, which will raise funds for homeless and\/or LGBT charities.<\/p>\n

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Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 3:11 — 4.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Figgy Pudding Incident (2015) If you enjoyed this piece of music, please consider donating to the Albert Kennedy Trust, who work with homeless LGBT young people. A couple of days ago, my wife made me aware of the second and third verses of ‘We Wish you a Merry Christmas’, in which the singers demand […]<\/p>\n

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Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 3:11 — 4.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,8],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-90","category-supercollider","tag-christmas","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}