{"id":32932,"date":"2020-12-22T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32932"},"modified":"2020-12-22T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:48:00","slug":"hope-christmas-gets-you-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32932","title":{"rendered":"Hope Christmas Gets You To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I slept poorly last night.  For some reason, I couldn&#8217;t get comfortable.  I tossed.  I turned.  I had a headache; migraine or dehydration, I couldn&#8217;t tell.  I yanked the sheets off the bed and, at one point, tossed off blankets, later having to recover them because I was cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know it&#8217;s a bad idea to check one&#8217;s phone in the middle of the night, but I couldn&#8217;t sleep, I&#8217;d taken Tylenol to try and calm the headache, so what was the harm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw this Tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Christmas song written and performed by two Glasgow teachers has become an unexpected success. &#39;Hope Christmas Gets You To Me&#39; was written by Phil Ford and Tim Kwant who are known as Lapwing<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bbcgms?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bbcgms<\/a> 0850<\/p>&mdash; Gary Robertson (@BBCGaryR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCGaryR\/status\/1341301636594081792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An intriguing &#8212; if not entirely helpful! &#8212; bit of information.  The tweet could have linked, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wearelapwing\" class=\"ek-link\">the band&#8217;s Twitter handle<\/a>, since someone seeing it on Twitter might want that.  Or a link to the song &#8212; &#8220;Hope Christmas Gets You to Me&#8221; &#8212; which &#8220;has become an unexpected success.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google helped me there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lapwing - Hope Christmas Gets You To Me (Official Video)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5I8jgWXxhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s quite nice, isn&#8217;t it?  A Christmas song for these COVID-afflicted times, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/entertainment\/scots-teachers-eye-place-in-charts-with-christmas-song\" class=\"ek-link\">a song about human connection<\/a> in a time when we have to be apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The song&#8217;s available on <a href=\"https:\/\/wearelapwing.bandcamp.com\/track\/hope-christmas-gets-you-to-me\" class=\"ek-link\">Bandcamp<\/a> for a very reasonable buck fifty, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wearelapwing.bandcamp.com\/album\/hope-christmas-gets-you-to-me-instrumentals\" class=\"ek-link\">the instrumental backing track<\/a> is available separately as a &#8220;name your price&#8221; EP.  (I kicked in money for that.)  The instrumental is nice to listen to on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lapwing.  Two school teacher friends in Glasgow.  I&#8217;ll have to remember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept poorly last night. For some reason, I couldn&#8217;t get comfortable. I tossed. I turned. I had a headache; migraine or dehydration, I couldn&#8217;t tell. I yanked the sheets off the bed and, at one point, tossed off blankets, later having to recover them because I was cold. I know it&#8217;s a bad idea<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32932\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hope Christmas Gets You To Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[64,4961,4962,88],"class_list":["post-32932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-glasgow","tag-lapwing","tag-scotland","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}