{"id":9283,"date":"2011-12-23T00:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:25:36","slug":"merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9283","title":{"rendered":"Merry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_2011\/a_christmas_medley_from_barnsley_town_centre.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/a_christmas_medley_from_barnsley_town_centre.jpg\" alt=\"a christmas medley from barnsley town centre\" height=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/12_2011\/a_christmas_medley_from_barnsley_town_centre.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> A Christmas Medley From Barnsley Town Centre (2011, 87MB, 1:29 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Normally we don&#8217;t post our own work here but I couldn&#8217;t resist this.<br \/>\nAlso &#8211; it was a <em>gift<\/em>; no editing, just the take. (OK. I turned down the brightness<br \/>\n&amp; jacked up the contrast a little.)<br \/>\nBarnsley is actually the friendliest of places, with a grumpy, wry, cheerfulness born of<br \/>\ngenerations of working-class solidarity, especially in the pits, though it&#8217;s now<br \/>\nravaged by the cuts and closures of the past years.<br \/>\nFrom me &amp; Doron, Happy Holidays and looking forward to a better world next year.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re taking a small holiday break &amp; we&#8217;ll be back with something rather splendid<br \/>\nfrom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisamaltz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morrisa Maltz<\/a> on January 2nd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Medley From Barnsley Town Centre (2011, 87MB, 1:29 min) Normally we don&#8217;t post our own work here but I couldn&#8217;t resist this. Also &#8211; it was a gift; no editing, just the take. (OK. I turned down the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,88,47,86,22,108,100,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-documentary-arts","category-landscape","category-observational","category-place","category-politics","category-seasonal","category-travelogue","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11769,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions\/11769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}