{"id":540,"date":"2017-12-23T23:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-12-23T23:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:06:56","slug":"santa-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2017\/12\/santa-loves-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Loves You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"[play]\"\/ Santa Loves You<\/a><\/p>\n

I was extremely startled to hear the religious content in the second verse of Here Comes Santa Claus<\/em>. It seems the authors were responding to criticism of the secular\/commercial focus of most Santa-based songs and thus were trying to have it both ways.<\/p>\n

The addition of God only increases the tension of the culture war’s resonances within this song. Instead of including Jesus, the song instead seemingly elevates Santa to part of a pantheon.<\/p>\n

The attempt to tackle class is even less successful – Santa may love children who are rich and poor equally, but they don’t get equal presents.<\/p>\n

This is the last song in this year’s Christmas album. If you enjoyed it (or not), please consider making a donation to the Hackney Night Shelter<\/a>, which my wife has been volunteering at. There are very few shelter beds in East London. This roving shelter makes up a large percentage of them.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to download this album in higher fidelity than is available here, you can find it and cover art over at bandcamp<\/a>. It’s a free download, but please do make a donation directly to the shelter!<\/p>\n

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Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:04 — 1.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santa Loves You I was extremely startled to hear the religious content in the second verse of Here Comes Santa Claus. It seems the authors were responding to criticism of the secular\/commercial focus of most Santa-based songs and thus were trying to have it both ways. The addition of God only increases the tension of […]<\/p>\n

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Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:04 — 1.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,8,105],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-109","category-supercollider","category-vaporwave","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}