{"id":888564,"date":"2026-01-28T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/the-12-days-of-christmas-the-story-behind-the-holidays-most-annoying-carol\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:21:06","slug":"the-12-days-of-christmas-the-story-behind-the-holidays-most-annoying-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/the-12-days-of-christmas-the-story-behind-the-holidays-most-annoying-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday\u2019s most annoying carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the \u201cChristmas creep\u201d now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21796404\/12-days-of-christmas-explained\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tanya Pai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the \u201cChristmas creep\u201d now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,192,139],"tags":[9835,6139],"class_list":{"0":"post-888564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-christmas","8":"category-sports","9":"category-story","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-story"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}