{"id":485,"date":"2009-12-14T20:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deegardner.dmgsouth.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-12-14T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T03:54:39","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2009\/12\/14\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was 6 or 7 years ago I was in LA on business.\u00a0 My brother Mike was living there babysitting some dogs.\u00a0 So we got together and invited my Friend Jayd McFerson over to hang out.\u00a0 He told us he&#8217;d just worked out a new song.\u00a0 We asked him to play it.\u00a0 After playing it once.\u00a0 Mike and I wanted a copy.\u00a0 Mike setup his camera, hooked up a mic and recorded the song. Mike sent me the song and I in turn sent a copy to Jayd.<\/p>\n<p>Jayd had been in a band with his brothers called the &#8220;Arrogants&#8221;\u00a0 a year or so after our little recording session Jayd phoned me to say they were coming out with an album and wanted to include Mike&#8217;s recording on the album.\u00a0 Mike gave him permisson.\u00a0 The album was released in 2005.\u00a0 Fast foward to 2007.\u00a0 Mike was back in St. George working at KCSG and one of Mike Co-workers, Tilt Tyree, was playing an album after the news was over.\u00a0 And Mike heard his recording from that Christmas in LA.\u00a0 He had completely forgotten about the album.\u00a0 Mike was way excited and said he I recorded that song.\u00a0 His friend said &#8220;No way&#8221; but sure enough there was the credit to Mike on the album. Jayd told me later the sound guy at the studio, was insulted when Jayd wanted Mike&#8217;s recording over the studios.\u00a0 O well. Always a fun story.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrogants.com\/sounds\/TheArrogants_Goodbye_12_PeopleLoveMoneyMoreThanPeople.mp3\">Check out the Christmas Song<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was 6 or 7 years ago I was in LA on business.\u00a0 My brother Mike was living there babysitting some dogs.\u00a0 So we got together and invited my Friend Jayd McFerson over to hang out.\u00a0 He told us he&#8217;d just worked out a new song.\u00a0 We asked him to play it.\u00a0 After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journal-entry","7":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-7P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}