{"id":14927,"date":"2019-12-17T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2019-12-17T02:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:19:44","slug":"spare-parts-its-gonna-be-a-bruce-springsteen-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/17\/spare-parts-its-gonna-be-a-bruce-springsteen-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare Parts: It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Bruce Springsteen Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kicking off a new blog series with today&#8217;s entry.\u00a0It&#8217;s called\u00a0<em>Spare Parts<\/em>, because I honestly have no idea how else to classify this clip.<\/p>\n<p>But: it&#8217;s seasonal, charming, and good-naturedly funny. So without further ado, here&#8217;s Xander Green and Gil Varod&#8217;s tale of How the Boss Saved Christmas from December 15, 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOy4FGUUg4I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Green is obviously a fan: even though his voice isn&#8217;t anywhere near a close match for Bruce&#8217;s, his vocal patterns and phrasings are knowing, and there are a couple of great piano references to those mid-seventies bootlegs.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks for the chuckle, Xander and Gil, and happy holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking off a new series with a seasonal E Street fable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15098,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2583],"tags":[2586,2584,2585],"class_list":["post-14927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spare-parts","tag-gil-varod","tag-its-gonna-be-a-bruce-springsteen-christmas","tag-xander-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bsxmas.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-3SL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15195,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/spare-parts-joe-grushecky-and-the-houserockers-cheap-motel\/","url_meta":{"origin":14927,"position":0},"title":"Spare Parts: Cheap Motel","author":"Ken","date":"January 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Co-written but never performed by Bruce, Joe Grushecky's \"Cheap Motel\" sure *sounds* like a Bruce song. 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