{"id":130,"date":"2013-09-17T06:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-09-17T06:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:31:37","slug":"do-you-reckon-xmas-might-be-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/do-you-reckon-xmas-might-be-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you Reckon Xmas might be coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiosydney.com.au\/wpimages\/wp418b674a.png\" width=\"216\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes Xmas is all very commercial. I think a nice well thought out card with a few lines says more&#8230;just as long as everyone else buys me wildly expensive presents of course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>True to form the Xmas Bunny just in time for fathers day is once again upon us<br \/>\nplugging the festive season in October. Of course Xmas day itself is approximately<br \/>\ntwo whole months away yet we get this tinsel and happiness right on cue earlier and<br \/>\nearlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have no real problem with Xmas (call it \u201ccoping with Family Day\u201d myself) and<br \/>\nI\u2019m not getting all \u201cBah Humbuggy\u201d, but Mid October is hardly the start of the \u201cFestive<br \/>\nSeason\u201d. It may be the start of the \u201cplease buy more and put it on Your credit cards, its<br \/>\nok \u2018cos its for Xmas\u201d season, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have a solution to this dilemma, we could just agree every day is Xmas 365 days<br \/>\na year (here at Radio Sydney we have a channel like that!). Everyone would of course<br \/>\nneed plastic trees that could weather the year and we\u2019d all have to scale down the<br \/>\npresents we give as on a per day basis it would get very expensive. However despite<br \/>\nthese few minor problems with a few Prozac&#8217;s in everyone&#8217;s morning coffee every day<br \/>\ncould be Xmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>Santa would lose the weight with all the extra lugging and put on more staff so it would<br \/>\ncreate more jobs, all in all a \u00a0win win. The only downside of course would be, with every<br \/>\nday Xmas day, and Xmas day a national holiday, not a lot of work would actually get<br \/>\ndone. Still as its Xmas the mountains of rat-<wbr \/>infested Xmas wrapping and spoiled food<br \/>\nThat could feed an Ethiopian family for a year etc. would not matter with sanitation<br \/>\nengineers enjoying Xmas at home with their families. After all its the season of<br \/>\nhappiness and the decline of Western civilization is a minor thing to be worrying about<br \/>\nwhen your opening presents and singing Xmas carols. When the power goes off we<br \/>\ncould just use candles..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to form the Xmas Bunny just in time for fathers day is once again upon us plugging the festive season in October. Of course Xmas day itself is approximately two whole months away yet we get this tinsel and happiness right on cue earlier and earlier in the year. Now I have no real &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/do-you-reckon-xmas-might-be-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you Reckon Xmas might be coming?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}