{"id":4393,"date":"2014-12-16T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2014-12-16T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:03:32","slug":"what-core-prof-was-on-the-radio-to-talk-xmas-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/12\/16\/what-core-prof-was-on-the-radio-to-talk-xmas-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"What Core prof was on the radio to talk Xmas carols?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/12\/one_horse_open1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/12\/one_horse_open1.jpg\" alt=\"one_horse_open1\" width=\"360\" height=\"271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4394 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/12\/one_horse_open1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/12\/one_horse_open1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cbcdaybreakkelowna\/the-secret-history-of-jingle-bells\" target=\"_blank\">Over at SoundCloud<\/a>, the good folks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have posted an audio interview with one of their hosts asking a certain familiar Core personality all about a certain familiar holiday song&#8230; can you guess who it was? Can you guess what song? Give up? It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/people\/kyna-hamill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Hamill<\/a>! It&#8217;s &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;! Minds are blown!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Prof. Hamill &#8212; who in addition to teaching humanities at BU is a key member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medfordhistorical.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medford Historical Society<\/a> &#8212; was a call-in guest, talking to the CBC&#8217;s Chris walker about the strange history of the song <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jingle_Bells\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; a song never intended, by its creators, to be associated with the Christmas holiday; a song with roots in a pub in New England and a church in Savannah; a song that, believe it or not, has even been to outer space. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/blazars\/AlanMarscher.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Marscher<\/a>, do you know anything about this?)<\/p>\n<p>Happy listening, Core-kateers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at SoundCloud, the good folks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have posted an audio interview with one of their hosts asking a certain familiar Core personality all about a certain familiar holiday song&#8230; can you guess who it was? Can you guess what song? Give up? It&#8217;s Professor Hamill! It&#8217;s &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;! Minds are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860,3856,2671],"tags":[3896,649,5691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}