{"id":5258,"date":"2025-12-04T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:16:46","slug":"merry-cringemuch-episode-3-the-chemistry-was-neglectful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"Merry Cringemuch Episode 3: The Chemistry was Neglectful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Cringemuch is an invitation to listen to conversations between two intellectuals about some of your (soon-to-be) favourite holiday films. Join Dr. Michael J. Regier and Katie Vlanich, MLIS, while they discuss a variety of Christmas romance films and explore the themes, the plots, the characters, and the cringe that make them a guilty pleasure. On this episode, we discuss a(nother) forced-proximity Christmas rom-com that sees a cabin sold to two people\u00a0<i>at exactly the same time\u00a0<\/i>(why? how? Don\u2019t expect answers from this movie) and a Christmas pageant rom-com with curious writing and a (not so subtle) agenda! If you\u2019ve ever thought to yourself \u201cWhy am I watching this movie?\u201d, this podcast is right up your alley!<\/p>\n<p>YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merry Cringemuch Episode 3:  The Chemistry was Neglectful\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-ndsXF1X_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spotify:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/71Q2cyBNqBxqp1n8Ih8xUZ\/video?utm_source=generator\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Cringemuch is an invitation to listen to conversations between two intellectuals about some of your (soon-to-be) favourite holiday films. Join Dr. Michael J. Regier and Katie Vlanich,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[205,87,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}