{"id":55858,"date":"2024-12-27T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55858"},"modified":"2024-12-27T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:28:44","slug":"the-dog-ate-my-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/27\/the-dog-ate-my-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Dog Ate My Holidays &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time just got away from me.\u00a0 But I had worked on a post earlier, so rather than waiting until 2025 I&#8217;m just going to go ahead and share it.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to post it yesterday so I could slip it in as a Boxing Day article &#8211; so I&#8217;m just going to pretend it&#8217;s STILL December 26th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Day<\/strong>, a UK holiday tradition celebrated the day after\u00a0Christmas, was once a day to donate gifts to those in need.\u00a0 But it has now evolved to become a part of Christmas festivities, and an extension for those of us wanting to participate in the PoliticsPlus Holiday Festivities \u2013 but got tied up with other things.<\/p>\n<p>To start I created some GIFs of the drone light show employing 4,981 drones to create the Guinness record-breaking holiday display over Mansfield, Texas on November 26, 2023<\/p>\n<p>The spectacular show was created by Sky Elements Drone Shows and UVify, a North Texas-based drone company.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I\u2019ll post the YouTube source video \u2013 but they make so many cuts and change of speed it was a bit difficult.<\/p>\n<p>(And you might want to kick up the speed in YouTube because the drones tend to move pretty slow in performing their precision aerial display.)<\/p>\n<p>In the same order as the video:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_01_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_02_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_03_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_04_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_05_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2025_Drone_Xmas_Light_Show_07_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the source YouTube video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Texas holiday drone show breaks record\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vB-m_Nmzld0?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>And I borrowed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacquielawson.com\/\"><strong>Jacquie Lawson<\/strong><\/a> Christmas message to add the one word we\u2019re all hoping for:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas_Dove_J_Lawson_15-Frames_72_122_PEACE.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it just wouldn\u2019t be Christmas without a reprise of those Caroling Penguins.\u00a0 <em>(That song STILLS makes me chuckle just thinking about it.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2669\u00a0\u00a0 \u266a\u00a0\u00a0 \u266b\u00a0\u00a0 \u266c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hark! The Herald Penguins sing:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please don\u2019t eat our little wings!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eat a goose down to the bone,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But leave Penguins all alone.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2669\u00a0\u00a0 \u266a\u00a0\u00a0 \u266b\u00a0\u00a0 \u266c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Baby ducks are very sweet,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tastier than Penguin meat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If we\u2019re carried in your store,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please, don\u2019t shop there anymore!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Penguin_Christmas_Cancer_Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Penguin_Christmas_Cancer_Cartoon.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Penguin_Christmas_Cancer_Cartoon-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Penguin_Christmas_Cancer_Cartoon-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time just got away from me.\u00a0 But I had worked on a post earlier, so rather than waiting until 2025 I&#8217;m just going to go ahead and share it. I was hoping to post it yesterday so I could slip it in as a Boxing Day article &#8211; so I&#8217;m just going to pretend it&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/27\/the-dog-ate-my-holidays\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3784,5024,6128,6127,3807],"class_list":["post-55858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-christmas","tag-drones","tag-jacquie-lawson","tag-light-show","tag-penguins","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}