{"id":27534,"date":"2023-12-08T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=27534"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:55:18","slug":"christmas-at-graceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/12\/christmas-at-graceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas At Graceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing what you find when you feel like you&#8217;ve exhausted everything else. Last night, after watching my daily installment of The Young and the Restless (yes, I&#8217;m totally hooked on this soap again) and I&#8217;ve watched the latest episodes of Virgin River &#8211; I came across this special.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas At Graceland.\u00a0 \u00a0How did I not know this was a thing?<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, and Christmas and music in general &#8211; this one I couldn&#8217;t look away from and I&#8217;m so glad I got to watch.<\/p>\n<p>The talent is incredible &#8211; Post Malone, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Cher, Dolly Parton and so many others coming together to celebrate Christmas and honour the incredible Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n<p>The way they combined the music, with videos of the late King of Rock and Roll was emotional to watch.\u00a0 To see a few of the artists performing alongside video footage of Elvis singing the same song was amazing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m an emotional girl, but seeing this happen where Elvis lived, mixed in with the videos of Elvis on stage and at Graceland, with family was just beautiful to watch and I did have some tears watching.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t watched it &#8211; it comes highly recommended.\u00a0 The fact that they have never done live music from Graceland before made it even more magical.\u00a0 To see different areas of Graceland &#8211; Alanis performed in front of Elvis&#8217;s plane.\u00a0 Post Malone was over the pool and surprised everyone at the end by jumping in.<\/p>\n<p>Extra sad knowing that Lisa Marie is gone now too.\u00a0 Riley &#8211; her daughter\/ Elvis&#8217; daughter put this special together.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you watch it and what you think &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:cbuchanan@blackburnmedia.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cbuchanan@blackburnmedia.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t94ATkl8bg4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s amazing what you find when you feel like you&#8217;ve exhausted everything else. Last night, after watching my daily installment of The Young and the Restless (yes, I&#8217;m totally hooked on this soap again) and I&#8217;ve watched the latest episodes of Virgin River &#8211; I came across this special. Christmas At Graceland.\u00a0 \u00a0How did I","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 11:22:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2023\/12\/christmas-at-graceland\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}