{"id":1508,"date":"2023-12-04T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2023-12-04T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T02:56:50","slug":"christmas-countdown-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/2023\/12\/christmas-countdown-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christmas is 3 weeks from today and we&#8217;re counting down with some Cowsills&#8217; Christmas music! We&#8217;re starting with our appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on Christmas Eve in 1967. Here&#8217;s a memory from Bob about that appearance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>In the Christmas medley, I was given Sleigh Ride and it was live television and the line that kept giving me trouble during rehearsal was &#8220;it&#8217;ll nearly be like a picture print from Courier and Ives&#8221; So every time I watch the video of that I see me holding it together but as that line is coming and approaching I know I&#8217;m thinking about it while I&#8217;m singing the verse I&#8217;m in and thinking &#8230; oh my God here it comes&#8230; oh my God here it comes&#8230; Courier and Ives&#8230; Courier and Ives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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=\"The Cowsills &quot;Little Drummer Boy, The Christmas Song &amp; Deck The Halls&quot; on The Ed Sullivan Show\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yINVuDZQUHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is 3 weeks from today and we&#8217;re counting down with some Cowsills&#8217; Christmas music! We&#8217;re starting with our appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on Christmas Eve in 1967. Here&#8217;s a memory from Bob about that appearance: In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/2023\/12\/christmas-countdown-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowsill.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}