{"id":2222,"date":"2019-12-20T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2019-12-17T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:41:28","slug":"xappy-xmanulubba-dub-duuuub-ukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/12\/xappy-xmanulubba-dub-duuuub-ukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Xappy XmanuLUBBA-DUB-DUUUUB-ukah!!! \u266a\u266b\u266a\u266c&#x1f385;&#x1f3ff;&#x1f384;&#x2721;&#xfe0f;&#x1f432;&#x1f525;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x26c4;&#xfe0f;&#x1f54e;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ip2TjI3lFgo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a Jew\u2014born and raised\u2014but I come from a &#8220;mixed&#8221; family (they say &#8220;interfaith&#8221; now).&nbsp; My dad is a Jew, but my mom was raised Christian.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both&nbsp;my maternal grandparents\u2014with whom I spent a lot of time&nbsp;growing up\u2014were practicing Christians. Far from shockingly, my own marriage is mixed (my wife was raised Catholic, our kids are Jews who end up participating in a lot of Xtian traditions).&nbsp; Interfaith families are really common now, but were much less so when I was young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you&#8217;re likely aware, back when I was a kid there weren&#8217;t&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KX5Z-HpHH9g\"><strong><em>a lot<\/em><\/strong> of Xanukah songs<\/a>&nbsp;for us Jewish kids. But there were at least some. Meanehle, there were <em>absolutely zero<\/em>&nbsp;songs for mixed half-a-Jews with an Xmas tree and a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menorah_(Hanukkah)\">Xanukiah<\/a> and a cat that managed to catch fire in the Xanukah candles every year and Xtian grandparents who&nbsp;came to&nbsp;town&nbsp;on Xmas Eve specifically to partake in the Jewish tradition of Xmas Chinese food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, listen, America: As a rule, we&#8217;re a nation that always wants everyone to be one thing or another thing\u2014black or white, nerd or jock, Jew or Gentile, girl or boy. We don&#8217;t have much patience for things that are mixed and ambiguous and a lil-o&#8217;-both, neither hot or cold. Subsequently, most of us neither-fish-nor-fowl spend a(n un)healthy portion of our lives aggresively trying to be One True Thing.&nbsp; I was in my 20s, and in a Women&#8217;s Studies class, before I learned what the hell &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; was, and my identity began to finally start to make any sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, there weren&#8217;t many mixed kids like me when I was growing up\u2014and&nbsp;there weren&#8217;t&nbsp;<em>any<\/em> songs or holiday specials or children&#8217;s books that reflected what I saw and felt and loved about wintertime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these are my songs, for all the little intersectional mixed kids out there, who don&#8217;t have any holiday songs to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/400875338&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Jew\u2014born and raised\u2014but I come from a &#8220;mixed&#8221; family (they say &#8220;interfaith&#8221; now).&nbsp; My dad is a Jew, but my mom was raised Christian.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both&nbsp;my maternal grandparents\u2014with whom I spent a lot of time&nbsp;growing up\u2014were practicing Christians. Far from shockingly, my own marriage is mixed (my wife was raised Catholic, our kids are Jews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/12\/xappy-xmanulubba-dub-duuuub-ukah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xappy XmanuLUBBA-DUB-DUUUUB-ukah!!! \u266a\u266b\u266a\u266c&#x1f385;&#x1f3ff;&#x1f384;&#x2721;&#xfe0f;&#x1f432;&#x1f525;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x26c4;&#xfe0f;&#x1f54e;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[19],"tags":[432,434,35,436,116,433,435,102,238],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}