{"id":3924,"date":"2015-12-24T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T20:24:53","slug":"merry-christmas-go-home-winter-youre-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas:  Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the year got away from me. \u00a0I know, it&#8217;s been a while, and I&#8217;m hoping to be a little more present and active in 2016. \u00a0In the mean time, I know that you haven&#8217;t forgotten me, since many of you ping me about not posting, and rest assured that I never forget you, dear friend and gentle reader.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of the holiday season, and in honor of the many friends who are sharing, with me, the 72-degree Christmas weather here on the East Coast, I give to you a NEW holiday song, a new Christmas Carol, with which to brighten your snowy Yuletide evenings. \u00a0(And yes, I&#8217;m shamelessly cross-posting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free Range Poetry!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called, of course,\u00a0<em><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=224\" target=\"_blank\">Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The holidays are jolly, hanging wreathes and hoisting holly<br \/>\nwith the reindeer and the snowmen standing guard<br \/>\nThe Christmas season&#8217;s calling as the mercury is falling<br \/>\nFrom Baltimore to Boston&#8217;s Harvard Yard<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">T&#8217;is the season to be freezin&#8217; while we shovel &#8217;round our hovels<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll celebrate the Winter, young and old<br \/>\nBut the temperature&#8217;s not dropping, while we&#8217;re out here Christmas shopping<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause this Winter doesn&#8217;t seem to like the cold!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Frosty&#8217;s sipping boat drinks, singing songs about the ice rinks<br \/>\nand I guess the weather&#8217;s really lost its head<br \/>\nThe elves are all in short sleeves and the snowman&#8217;s having dry heaves<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t someone put this Wintertime to bed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This Christmas is so green it&#8217;s blue, cause Winter&#8217;s got the Irish flu<br \/>\nand the snowplows and the road crew&#8217;s out of work<br \/>\nThe Solstice and it&#8217;s 82 \/ degrees, and I am telling you<br \/>\nTwelve beers has made this Wintertime a jerk!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Winter&#8217;s just might sober up<br \/>\nthe snowfall forecast&#8217;s climbing<br \/>\nand we might just get some inches after all<br \/>\nIt looks like things will whiten up<br \/>\nShame about the timing<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause it ain&#8217;t gonna snow here till next fall!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Go Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk! I&#8217;ll toss your coat back into the trunk.<br \/>\nAutumn&#8217;s riding shotgun, cause Springtime has the keys<br \/>\nWinter&#8217;s in the backseat with its head between its knees<br \/>\nSummer&#8217;s gonna hold your hair \/ while you toss snowballs everywhere<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<br \/>\nGo Home, Winter, You&#8217;re Drunk!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s the good news. \u00a0The bad news is that I&#8217;m writing a dozen more and I&#8217;ll have a Big Ugly Christmas Album out for next year! \u00a0Happy Holidays to you all, and to all, a Good Night!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the year got away from me. \u00a0I know, it&#8217;s been a while, and I&#8217;m hoping to be a little more present and active in 2016. \u00a0In the mean time, I know that you haven&#8217;t forgotten me, since many of you ping me about not posting, and rest assured that I never forget you, dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}