{"id":2272,"date":"2026-08-09T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:08:07","slug":"late-christmas-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2026\/08\/09\/late-christmas-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Christmas in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A propos almost nothing, today I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnstFOTGJgc\">Brandi Carlile&#8217;s lovely rendition of &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;<\/a> from last December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fairytale is among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/16\/sounds-of-the-season-day-1\/\">my favourite x-mas songs<\/a>. The opening of Carlile&#8217;s version made me worry that she&#8217;d try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2021\/01\/23\/same-words-different-meaning\/\">collapse the duet into a solo<\/a>, but instead she has the whole ensemble join in\u2014 making it equal parts joyous, rambunctious, and delightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They take the problematic slur of a verse and replace it with the equally apt, &#8220;You suck, and I hate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-lyre.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-lyre.png?resize=640%2C309&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a donkey with a harp\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-lyre.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191216-lyre.png?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A propos almost nothing, today I discovered Brandi Carlile&#8217;s lovely rendition of &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; from last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[16,32],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","category-link-dump","tag-music","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-AE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}