{"id":2505,"date":"2020-12-10T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/xappy-xmanulubba-dub-duuuub-ukah-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:24:35","slug":"xappy-xrismanukwanzxanukahnacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/xappy-xrismanukwanzxanukahnacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Xappy XrismanuKwanzXanukahNacht!!! \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<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow\">\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).\u00a0 My dad is a Jew, but my mom was raised Christian.\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0my maternal grandparents\u2014with whom my sisters and I spent a lot of time\u2014were practicing Christians. Interfaith families are really common now (my wife and I are mixed), but were much less so when I was young. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_77B61C1A0224-1-694x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2514\" width=\"252\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_77B61C1A0224-1-694x1024.jpeg 694w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_77B61C1A0224-1-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_77B61C1A0224-1.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\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 <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>There weren&#8217;t many mixed kids like us\u2014and&nbsp;there weren&#8217;t&nbsp;<em>any<\/em> songs or holiday specials or children&#8217;s books that reflected what we saw and felt and loved about wintertime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these are my songs, for all the little <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intersectionality\">intersectional<\/a> mixed kids out there, who don&#8217;t have any holiday songs to sing.<\/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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\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).\u00a0 My dad is a Jew, but my mom was raised Christian.\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0my maternal grandparents\u2014with whom my sisters and I spent a lot of time\u2014were practicing Christians. Interfaith families are really common now (my wife and I are mixed), but were much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/xappy-xrismanukwanzxanukahnacht\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xappy XrismanuKwanzXanukahNacht!!! \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":[19,11,3],"tags":[432,434,541,35,436,116,433,435,102,399,238],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}