{"id":6467,"date":"2010-12-17T04:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T09:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/6467\/rastaman-santa\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T04:22:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T09:22:55","slug":"rastaman-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/6467\/rastaman-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rastaman Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #006400\">It\u2019s a reggae ukulele Christmas everyone!  Ho Ho Ho!  This little ditty was written by my friend<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorsparkles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor Sparkles<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #006400\">who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KnoHy1z-RwM\" target=\"_blank\">made a tutorial video<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #006400\"> <span style=\"font-size: medium\">about how to play that reggae strum on your uke (he&#8217;s also got a new CD coming out soon!) .\u00a0 I\u2019ll make this vid a YouTube response to that one. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #990000\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Now, in the original CD version of this song on his Sail Away release, there were backing vocals not heard on the tutorial.  Since I had custody of these puppets until tomorrow when they go back to the Thumbnail Theatre here in Snohomish, I thought they\u2019d be perfect for the backing job.  They don\u2019t sing very well.  And the kazoo part was horrible!  Ugh.  Not to mention that she only brought a bright green kazoo, which doesn\u2019t work too well with the green screen effect.   I\u2019m not one to talk, I suppose, with my green-billed  Merry Christmas baseball cap. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Enjoy! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Now, in case anyone was wondering why a person in recovery from addiction would sing a song glorifying weed for Christmas.  I\u2019m a recovering alcoholic, but I can\u2019t smoke marijuana either.  It would be too easy of a step to go from the latter back to the former and that would be disastrous.  That said, I don\u2019t think marijuana is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself.  It\u2019s just like any other drug, alcohol included.  It\u2019s only really dangerous for people for whom it takes over their lives and becomes a top priority.  Unfortunately, that could be me, so I stay away from the stuff.  Singing about it, that\u2019s another story. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a reggae ukulele Christmas everyone! Ho Ho Ho! This little ditty was written by my friend, Doctor Sparkles, who recently made a tutorial video about how to play that reggae strum on your uke (he&#8217;s also got a new CD coming out soon!) .\u00a0 I\u2019ll make this vid a YouTube response to that one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,8,11,25],"tags":[165,190,763,45,315,81,108,764,639,106],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-music","category-people","category-world","tag-christmas","tag-comedy","tag-doctor-sparkles","tag-holidays","tag-humor","tag-joko","tag-music-2","tag-reggae","tag-santa","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}