{"id":980,"date":"2019-12-21T09:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T09:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=980"},"modified":"2019-12-19T04:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:30:45","slug":"sounds-of-the-season-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/21\/sounds-of-the-season-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of the season, day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Good King Wenceslas&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bMmxhhfQw0c\">YouTube<\/a>) is a song I learned in elementary school. The narrative is actually pretty weird. A king&#8217;s magical powers are downplayed in favor of extolling charity and sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What sells it for me is the extra verse, which I saw years later in an episode of <em>Phineas&amp;Ferb<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/phineasandferb.fandom.com\/wiki\/Good_King_Wenceslas\">Wiki<\/a>). Buford Von Stomm, in order to establish that he knows the whole story, gives us this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The words were by an English guy.<br \/> The music, Scandinavian.<br \/> Wenceslas was five-foot-six.<br \/> He kept his face unshaven.<br \/> Though just a duke throughout his life,<br \/> He always ruled so justly<br \/> His kingly title was conferred<br \/> Upon him posthumously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Good King Wenceslas&#8221; (YouTube) is a song I learned in elementary school. The narrative is actually pretty weird. A king&#8217;s magical powers are downplayed in favor of extolling charity and sharing. What sells it for me is the extra verse, which I saw years later in an episode of Phineas&amp;Ferb (Wiki). Buford Von Stomm, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2019\/12\/21\/sounds-of-the-season-day-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sounds of the season, day 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,32],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","tag-music","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-fO","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}