{"id":1389,"date":"2016-12-20T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-12-20T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:09:18","slug":"chris-flemings-new-holiday-tradition-gigi-the-christmas-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/12\/20\/chris-flemings-new-holiday-tradition-gigi-the-christmas-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Fleming&#8217;s New Holiday Tradition &#8211; Gigi the Christmas Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been chill this Christmas season? Or have you been rank? If it&#8217;s rank, I hope you have a guest room and infinite patience. These are the rules as applied by Gigi the Christmas Snake, from &#8220;Gayle&#8221; creator and star <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisfluming?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Fleming<\/a>. And if ever there was a video that better embodied the spirit of tangenting, I have yet to see it. <\/p>\n<p>Fleming excels at the odd. The first time I saw him perform, he did a bird mating ritual that reminded me of Monty Python&#8217;s &#8220;Ministry of Silly Walks,&#8221; and shortly after that, the prototype for what became &#8220;Gayle&#8221; &#8212; a power-walking suburban housewife on a demented hero&#8217;s journey through the local mall. Gigi fits comfortably into Fleming&#8217;s madcap world, but it&#8217;s fun to see him play it straight while everything around him is nuts. A bit of a different dynamic.  <\/p>\n<p>To see where Fleming is touring, check his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrisflemingfleming\/events\/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. Enjoy the cake.    <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBgrsC6uHUk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been chill this Christmas season? Or have you been rank? If it&#8217;s rank, I hope you have a guest room and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[915,916,917],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","tag-chris-fleming","tag-gayle","tag-gigi-the-christmas-snake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gigithechristmassnake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-mp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}