{"id":8781,"date":"2017-11-12T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:19:34","slug":"christmas-music-driving-people-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/12\/christmas-music-driving-people-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Music Driving People Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2017\/11\/08\/christmas-music-too-early-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from CBS Philly<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"posttitle\">Christmas Music Can Harm Your Mental Health, Psychologist\u00a0Says<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikOa-CEwNgM\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>CBS Local \u2014<\/em><\/strong> Are you one of those people that can\u2019t stand hearing Christmas songs months before the holiday actually arrives? Does hearing festive carols weeks before Thanksgiving only make you upset that you haven\u2019t eaten your turkey yet? A psychologist in Great Britain says your reactions don\u2019t make you a Grinch because too much Christmas music is actually bad for your mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical psychologist Linda Blair claims the constant barrage of Christmas tunes too early in the season forces people to remember all the things they have to do before the holiday. Blair says the songs are a reminder to buy presents, cater parties, organize travel, and all the more stressful chores during Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re simply spending all of your energy trying not to hear what you\u2019re hearing,\u201d Blair tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews\/videos\/1972902619390992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2017\/11\/08\/christmas-music-too-early-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at CBS Philly<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS Philly Christmas Music Can Harm Your Mental Health, Psychologist\u00a0Says CBS Local \u2014 Are you one of those people that can\u2019t stand hearing Christmas songs months before the holiday actually arrives? Does hearing festive carols weeks before Thanksgiving only make you upset that you haven\u2019t eaten your turkey yet? A psychologist in Great Britain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}