{"id":12625,"date":"2018-12-24T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2018-12-24T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:42:56","slug":"the-12-songs-of-christmas-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/the-12-songs-of-christmas-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Songs of Christmas: #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>About a month ago,\u00a0 Adam decided he wanted to learn to play &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221; as a Christmas gift for my mom. The song has special meaning for my family and was my dad&#8217;s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Adam&#8217;s ukulele teacher thought it was a great idea and converted the sheet music into an Adam-friendly version. He worked with Adam on it for the past several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Adam surprised my mom with the song yesterday afternoon. He did a fantastic job. I am so proud of him for thinking of such a thoughtful gift and working so hard on it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pvIS9Ctpso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adam and my dad had an incredibly close relationship. They said that they were,\u00a0 &#8220;Two peas in a pod, always and forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This time of year is bittersweet. My dad loved Christmas and watching all of us, especially the grandchildren, open presents. He&#8217;d be the first one hunting down double A batteries and playing with the kids (and their new toys) on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>We all miss him and feel his loss more acutely this time of year. I know he would love listening to Adam play his ukulele. Based on how my dad treated my brother&#8217;s drum set when we were growing up, I am sure he&#8217;d borrow it and play his own &#8220;songs&#8221; on it too. (I feel like now is a good time to point out how glad I am that Adam chose to learn the ukulele, and not the drums.)<\/p>\n<p>I am also incredibly thankful that I had the dad I did. I know he is watching over us and is super proud of his other pea in a pod (and all the grandkids in his and Mabel&#8217;s crew) too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago,\u00a0 Adam decided he wanted to learn to play &#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221; as a Christmas gift for my mom. The song has special meaning for my family and was my dad&#8217;s favorite. Adam&#8217;s ukulele teacher thought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/the-12-songs-of-christmas-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}