{"id":3597,"date":"2011-12-25T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T21:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:52:16","slug":"green-chritma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/green-chritma.html","title":{"rendered":"Green Chri$tma$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My humble holiday offering to the world&#8230; a brilliant satiric radio play from American comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/stan_freberg_show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stan Freberg<\/a>. While his <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitings-writings.com\/xmas2010.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Chri$tma$<\/a><\/em> was produced in 1958, it is perhaps more pertinent today than ever before. Freberg&#8217;s scathing indictment of capitalism run amok during the Christmas season was promptly banned by commercial radio and attacked by advertisers and advertising trade magazines; an editorial in the Los Angeles Times wrote a condemnation of Freberg&#8217;s musical production. <em>Green Chri$tma$<\/em> received virtually no radio airplay in the United States until around 1983, and the work still remains largely unknown to the overwhelming majority of Americans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"STAN FREBERG - Green Christmas (1958) - A Classic!\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5IXlfJSEi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My humble holiday offering to the world&#8230; a brilliant satiric radio play from American comedian Stan Freberg. While his Green Chri$tma$ was produced in 1958, it is perhaps more pertinent today than ever before. Freberg&#8217;s scathing indictment of capitalism run amok during the Christmas season was promptly banned by commercial radio and attacked by advertisers and advertising trade magazines; an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xmas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}