{"id":929,"date":"2005-12-25T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=929"},"modified":"2005-12-25T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T16:28:20","slug":"war-on-christmas-interplanetary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/war-on-christmas-interplanetary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas (Interplanetary edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia300141.us.archive.org\/3\/items\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians.gif\" alt=\"Santa v. Martians\" align=left \/><br \/>\nA major event in the war on Christmas was documented in one of my delightful gifts &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058548\/\">Santa Claus Conquers the Martians<\/a> novelization and DVD of the 1964 film which features not only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001871\/\">Pia Zadora<\/a> as a child actress but much of the same scramble footage as seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057012\/\">Dr. Strangelove<\/a> (which was released the same year).<br \/>\nAlso in the movie, the original version of the traditional Christmas carol <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senortonto.com\/christmas\/\">&#8220;Hooray for Santy Claus.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nAlso available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians\">archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major event in the war on Christmas was documented in one of my delightful gifts &#8212; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians novelization and DVD of the 1964 film which features not only Pia Zadora as a child actress but much of the same scramble footage as seen in Dr. Strangelove (which was released the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}