{"id":11940,"date":"2019-12-23T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2019-12-23T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:49:06","slug":"christmas-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/12\/christmas-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an 83-year-old great-grandfather in Texas named Johnny Gondesen who used to be in a country western band when he was young.\u00a0 And back in 1965, he wrote a Christmas song for his kids called\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Christmas Is Here&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about Santa coming down the chimney.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s got a classic, old-timey feel to it.\u00a0 But it never got released. Johnny and his family sing it every Christmas, and they&#8217;ve always thought it was pretty good.\u00a0 So a few years ago, they made a YouTube\u00a0video, put the song on iTunes, and sold a handful of copies.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnny&#8217;s real dream was for people all over the country to hear it on the RADIO someday.\u00a0 And now it&#8217;s happening. A station in Houston heard about the story, and had him on last week.\u00a0 Then CNN picked it up.\u00a0 And now more people are playing it.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t care if it ever makes him any money.\u00a0 He just knows his kids loved it.\u00a0 So he wants it out there for other kids to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_TGqITTrnS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"83yr old&#8217;s dream coming true ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:44:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2019\/12\/christmas-is-here\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11941,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/11941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}