{"id":10,"date":"2013-12-21T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-12-21T01:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:25:48","slug":"the-spirit-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in Maine in the 80s-90s, it is very likely you will recognize &#8216;The Spirit of Maine at Christmastime&#8217;. It was in heavy rotation on <a title=\"WCSH 6 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsh6.com\">WCSH6<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the only channel it ran on, but that was pretty much the only channel that came in at my house, so I saw it a lot. I know all the words to this by heart, still.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty great, as far as state-themed holiday songs go! I haven&#8217;t heard it in years, but thanks to the magic of youtube, here it is!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-Gmui7pyyQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just did a bit of investigating. There isn&#8217;t a ton online about this song, but I did find out it is from 1989, and did in fact originate on WCSH6, apparently in conjunction with a Bob Elliot story about Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were in Maine in the 80s-90s, it is very likely you will recognize &#8216;The Spirit of Maine at Christmastime&#8217;. It was in heavy rotation on WCSH6. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the only channel it ran on, but that was pretty much the only channel that came in at my house, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=10\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Spirit of Maine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,2,5],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-maine","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}