{"id":63424,"date":"2025-12-25T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=63424"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:13:31","slug":"kingdom-of-days-december-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/kingdom-of-days-december-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of Days: December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>New for 2025:\u00a0<\/strong>No updates<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1964:\u00a0<\/strong>Adele Springsteen delights her fifteen -year-old son Bruce on Christmas morning, presenting him with a brand-new Japanese electric guitar and amplifier. Decades later, Bruce will retell the tale in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/23\/roll-of-the-dice-the-wish\/\">The Wish<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6050\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/1stguitar\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1stguitar.jpg?fit=282%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"282,419\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1stguitar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1stguitar.jpg?fit=282%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6050 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1stguitar-202x300.jpg?resize=758%2C1125\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1stguitar.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1stguitar.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/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\/KgkOPd5nHJk?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><strong>1986:\u00a0<\/strong>MTV airs a segment on Bruce during their year in review recap.<\/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\/6utss3VmnNg?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce unwrapped his very first electric guitar on this date in 1964&#8211;truly the gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14900,"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":[2],"tags":[2002,1096],"class_list":["post-63424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kingdom-of-days","tag-adele-springsteen","tag-mtv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1964bruce.png?fit=499%2C660&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-guY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62429,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/kingdom-of-days-november-23-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":63424,"position":0},"title":"Kingdom of Days: November 23","author":"Ken","date":"November 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce's video for \"Born in the U.S.A.\" premiered on MTV on this date--check out the coverage, plus: guest appearances by Bono, Dave Stewart, and Dion, Bruce's first-ever show in the Netherlands, and more.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kingdom of Days&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kingdom of Days","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/kingdom-of-days\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bitusa.gif?fit=500%2C371&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":57047,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/kingdom-of-days-june-10-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":63424,"position":1},"title":"June 10","author":"Ken","date":"June 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"On this date: Bruce receives his first Tony Award! 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