{"id":9761,"date":"2009-12-10T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2010-05-12T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:51:37","slug":"witvid-5-25-years-of-last-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/witvid-5-25-years-of-last-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"WITvid #5: 25 years of &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>WITvid is a periodic series by Peter Weber (Saitama-ken 2004-07), the JET Program Coordinator in San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although it&#8217;s not exactly a <em>Japanese <\/em>video, the song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Last_Christmas\">Last Christmas<\/a>&#8221; by the group WHAM has become very much a part of the the Japanese Christmas tradition.\u00a0 Celebrating its 25 Year Anniversay, please enjoy the original 1984 video (posted by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ClassicXmas\"> ClassicXmas<\/a>) below.\u00a0 You may notice that the video could have easily inspired a few karaoke box videos. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3354flS1KJs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITvid is a periodic series by Peter Weber (Saitama-ken 2004-07), the JET Program Coordinator in San Francisco. Although it&#8217;s not exactly a Japanese video, the song &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; by the group WHAM has become very much a part of the the Japanese Christmas tradition.\u00a0 Celebrating its 25 Year Anniversay, please enjoy the original 1984 video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[1],"tags":[1383],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}