{"id":5269,"date":"2025-12-11T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:35:51","slug":"merry-cringemuch-episode-4-serendipity-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"Merry Cringemuch Episode 4:  Serendipity Strikes Back; or, the Chiefs Takeaway of this Episode is that Hatpiness is the Need for an Absolute Belief in Hat Magic"},"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. In this episode, you\u2019ll hear all about a Christmas caper, that is light on the capering and heavy on the Christmas ornaments, and a real Hallmark (!) that probably cost more than the previous seven movies we watched combined\u2014hats off to Katie for this choice. If you\u2019ve ever thought to yourself \u201cWhy am I watching this movie?\u201d, this podcast is right up your alley!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merry Cringemuch Episode 4:  Serendipity Strikes Back\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-Ktz6RStK0?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/profile\/wpldb\/embed\/episodes\/Merry-Cringemuch-Episode-4-Serendipity-Strikes-Back-or--the-Chiefs-Takeaway-of-this-Episode-is-that-Hatpiness-is-the-Need-for-an-Absolute-Belief-in-Hat-Magic-e3c7osb\/a-acbvd9v\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/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\/5269"}],"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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5271"}],"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=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/digital\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}