{"id":90690,"date":"2022-08-28T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90690"},"modified":"2022-08-28T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:31:38","slug":"the-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/08\/28\/the-war-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s a diva smackdown which started when <strong>Mariah Carey <\/strong>decided to trademark the title <strong><em>Queen of Christmas<\/em> <\/strong>due to her hit \u201cAll I Want For Christmas\u201d (which someone else claims to have written).&nbsp; This has enraged <strong>Darlene Love <\/strong>\u2013 who recorded \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d back in 1963.&nbsp; Since 1986, Love sang her song every year for <strong>David Letterman<\/strong>, who termed her the <em>Queen of Christmas<\/em> \u2013 although I don\u2019t believe anyone filled out that pesky paperwork.&nbsp; When Darlene heard of Carey\u2019s intentions, she made a statement of her own: \u201cIs it true that Mariah trademarked <em>Queen of Christmas<\/em>?&nbsp; What does that mean, that I can\u2019t use the title?&nbsp; David Letterman officially declared me the <em>Queen of Christmas <\/em>29 years ago, a year before she released \u2018All I Want For Christmas Is You\u2019 and at 81 years of age, I\u2019m NOT changing anything.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been in the business for 52 years, have earned it and can still hit those notes!&nbsp; If Mariah has a problem, call David Letterman or my lawyer!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s a diva smackdown which started when Mariah Carey decided to trademark the title Queen of Christmas due to her hit \u201cAll I Want For Christmas\u201d (which someone else claims to have written).&nbsp; This has enraged Darlene Love \u2013 who recorded \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d back in 1963.&nbsp; Since 1986, Love sang her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90691,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690\/revisions\/90691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}