{"id":93246,"date":"2024-11-17T23:13:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93246"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:13:32","slug":"bennett-vaughan-collab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/bennett-vaughan-collab\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett\/Vaughan Collab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these divisive days, I think we can all agree that nobody does Christmas quite like <em>The Hallmark Channel<\/em>.&nbsp; They do it so well, they even do that ever-annoying Christmas in July!&nbsp; It\u2019s also well-documented that I\u2019m against holiday hoopla happening prior to Thanksgiving.&nbsp; Carols in the mall, lights on houses, tinsel in CVS \u2013 no, no, no, not ho, ho, ho.&nbsp; Call me old-fashioned, but that\u2019s how I feel.&nbsp; On the other hand, you throw me a hot guy in a <strong>Santa <\/strong>hat and a smile and I\u2019m willing to put my bias aside and take a little time to enjoy the view.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This brings us to <strong>Jonathan Bennett<\/strong>, who has entered into an unholy alliance with <em>The Hallmark Channel <\/em>to provide us with seasonal fare.&nbsp; And since the departure of <strong>Candace Cameron Bure<\/strong>, it stands to reason that the network would go in the complete opposite direction.&nbsp; Bennett\u2019s latest flick is <strong><em>Season\u2019s Greetings from Cherry Lane<\/em><\/strong>, which is actually the first installment of a three-part sequel to what I\u2019m told is a popular franchise \u2013&nbsp; all based on different families living in the same house over 70 years.&nbsp; Proving nepotism is alive and well even with the gays, Bennett\u2019s hubby, <strong>Jaymes Vaughan<\/strong>, contributes a song to the soundtrack.&nbsp; Oh, yes, the former <em>Chippendale <\/em>is now a chanteuse!&nbsp; He just released an EP called \u201cFeels Like Christmas\u201d.&nbsp; Recently, he debuted the song \u201cHome for the Holidays\u201d on the <em>Hallmark Christmas Cruise<\/em>, which was hosted by Bennett.&nbsp; Jaymes said, \u201cI wanted to write the kind of Christmas music that you know exactly what you\u2019re in for the minute it starts&#8230;These tracks are all originals, not covers, because I wanted to create music that reflects what Christmas music sounds like to me.\u201d&nbsp; Listen for it in the movie, which debuts on <em>Hallmark+ <\/em>on December 5<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Or in an elevator at your local mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these divisive days, I think we can all agree that nobody does Christmas quite like The Hallmark Channel.&nbsp; They do it so well, they even do that ever-annoying Christmas in July!&nbsp; It\u2019s also well-documented that I\u2019m against holiday hoopla happening prior to Thanksgiving.&nbsp; Carols in the mall, lights on houses, tinsel in CVS \u2013<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93246","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\/93246","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=93246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93247,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93246\/revisions\/93247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}