{"id":27900,"date":"2010-12-20T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=27900"},"modified":"2010-12-20T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:21:42","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 Elvis Presley Christmas Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28044\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4204.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4204-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>If I wanted anyone serenading me with Christmas carols it would be Elvis. This Christmas ornament of The King captures his 1950&#8217;s essence complete with slim body, pompadour and up-curled lip though some 1970&#8217;s puffiness is starting to invade his cheeks.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28064\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4113.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4113-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Hallmark did a nice job of capturing his ever-on-point\u00a0foot to match his snarled lip:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28050\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4117.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4117-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what this Elvis is made of. He&#8217;s not quite plastic and not quite metal but is heavier than a normal Christmas ornament and has a nice secure screw in his head.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28048\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4201.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4201-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>In case the buyer or recipient has no idea who Elvis was Hallmark has provided a nice explanation, borrowing a little from Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28070\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_41082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_41082.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_41082-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>I hope you have a very Elvis holiday season with lots of fried chicken and peanut butter and banana sandwiches!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-20-at-11.08.39-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28088\" title=\"Screen-shot-2010-12-20-at-11.08.39-AM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-20-at-11.08.39-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-20-at-11.08.39-AM.jpg 549w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-20-at-11.08.39-AM-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>After too many peanut butter and banana sandwiches with bacon Elvis has left the building&#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28052\" title=\"Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4114.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Elvis-Christmas-ornament_4114-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I wanted anyone serenading me with Christmas carols it would be Elvis. This Christmas ornament of The King captures his 1950&#8217;s essence complete with slim body, pompadour and up-curled lip though some 1970&#8217;s puffiness is starting to invade his cheeks. Hallmark did a nice job of capturing his ever-on-point\u00a0foot to match his snarled lip: &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-6\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,223,87,193,13],"tags":[61,2446,3232,3245,2448],"class_list":["post-27900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","tag-allee-willis","tag-elvis-christmas-ornament","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-peaut-butter-elvis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}