{"id":2924,"date":"2013-12-24T06:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2013-12-24T03:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T03:56:35","slug":"christopher-lee-presents-a-heavy-metal-version-of-the-little-drummer-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee presents a heavy metal version of the Little Drummer Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But first, a Christmas message from the man himself: he&#8217;s 91, the same age as my Mum, who is visiting me from Hong Kong this very moment&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BEhvKl9_5bg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThanks to Open Culture for the following-<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s a cliche for an aging actor to release an album of seasonal chestnuts, but the 91-year-old Lee\u2019s A Heavy Metal Christmas is a thing apart. His take on The Little Drummer Boy is the sonic equivalent of Rosemary\u2019s Baby.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVzOve8T39w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHeavy Metal Christmas &#8211; Jingle Hell &#8211; thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/christopherleeweb.com\/pages\/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Christopher<\/a>!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/305viYB-G1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/horror-legend-christopher-lee-presents-a-heavy-metal-version-of-the-little-drummer-boy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link to full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But first, a Christmas message from the man himself: he&#8217;s 91, the same age as my Mum, who is visiting me from Hong Kong this very moment&#8230; Thanks to Open Culture for the following- &#8220;It\u2019s a cliche for an aging &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2924\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[603,4,24],"tags":[676,675,677,674,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}