{"id":4528,"date":"1989-06-04T21:30:22","date_gmt":"1989-06-04T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?page_id=4528"},"modified":"2018-10-28T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T16:15:07","slug":"the-sugarplum-fairy-talks-turkey-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Sugarplum Fairy Talks Turkey&#8217; (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE SUGARPLUM FAIRY TALKS TURKEY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Boston Globe, page 24, November 26th, 1989<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;All Christmas observances in our family are fairly traditional,&#8221; says Boston Pops conductor, John Williams, &#8220;with gifts and lots of slimming things to eat. It&#8217;s a family time. For the last 10 years, I&#8217;ve spent the week just before Christmas in Boston conducting the Pops. I enjoy that, because Christmas in Boston looks like Christmas ought to look. For someone from California this is a wonderful thing. Two years ago, the family came to Boston to join me, and then we went out to spend Christmas in Stockbridge.<br \/>\n&#8220;My wife Samatha does all the cooking, and my favorite part is the stuffing she does &#8212; when I ask her what&#8217;s in it, she says &#8216;Everything.&#8217; Sometimes I&#8217;ll play a few carols at the piano. For years a group of us would sing the new carols my friend and colleague Alfred Burt composed every Christmas; I&#8217;m very devoted to them, and now I always try to put some of them on the Pops Christmas program. . . . All the lights and festivity and shopping brightens everything &#8212; life in the winter months would be unthinkable without Christmas, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SUGARPLUM FAIRY TALKS TURKEY By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff The Boston Globe, page 24, November 26th, 1989 &#8220;All Christmas observances in our family are fairly traditional,&#8221; says Boston Pops conductor, John Williams, &#8220;with gifts and lots of slimming things&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=4528\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}