{"id":5658,"date":"2018-12-20T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:09:11","slug":"do-you-deck-the-halls-before-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/12\/20\/do-you-deck-the-halls-before-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Deck the Halls Before Thanksgiving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5679\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5679\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5679\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music-1024x724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music-1200x849.png 1200w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/12\/Snowmen-playing-Christmas-music.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowmen playing Christmas music<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With Christmas right around the corner, it\u2019s time to deck the halls and blast Michael Buble\u2019s holiday album on repeat. While people are just beginning to celebrate the holiday season with the commencement of Thanksgiving and Black Friday, there\u2019s been an ongoing debate of when it\u2019s appropriate to blare your speakers with Jingle Bells and other Christmas tunes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The argument is split between two different sides: those who listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving and those who listen to it afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there\u2019s basically a holiday for every month: November is Thanksgiving\u2019s month.\u00a0 If you start listening to Christmas music in November, you\u2019re disrupting the natural progression of holidays! That\u2019s unacceptable!\u201d Ethan Dube, UMPI senior, said.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook poll of 105 votes revealed that only 47 percent believed that it was appropriate to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving and 53 percent did not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Christmas music has a rejoiced and cherished purpose, and it acts as a reminder for us on the holidays. I sometimes listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving, just because it cheers me up and reminds me that the holidays will be back once more,\u201d Evan Zarkadas, UMPI junior, said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s right or wrong to listen to those holiday tunes before Thanksgiving is up to you. Some people enjoy listening to it as soon as Halloween is over. Others are firm in their belief that Christmas music cannot be listened to until Thanksgiving has gone by. This debate has already taken the Internet by storm. Many people have created memes and jokes revolving around this topic. Do you believe it\u2019s appropriate to listen to holiday music before Thanksgiving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas right around the corner, it\u2019s time to deck the halls and blast Michael Buble\u2019s holiday album on repeat. While people are just beginning to celebrate the holiday season with the commencement of Thanksgiving and Black Friday, there\u2019s been an ongoing debate of when it\u2019s appropriate to blare your speakers with Jingle Bells and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8556,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/8556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}