{"id":1235,"date":"2007-12-24T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/blogNew\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T03:59:50","slug":"merrry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Merrry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone here at ScorpsNews. I was looking for a poem that my friend wrote about the Scorpions and Christmas. However, I was not able to find it when I was looking for it. Since I couldn&#8217;t find that one, I will post one of his other poems about the Scorpions, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hail to the Scorpions<\/span>. It is from the &#8217;90s when Ralph and James had just joined the band. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hail, Hail To The Scorpions<br \/>Heavy Metal&#8217;s Long Reigning King<br \/>They&#8217;ve Kept Us Rockin&#8217; For Over 25 Years<br \/>And We Loved Em&#8217; From The Very First Sting<\/p>\n<p>Klaus Is The Cause That Gives Us All Pause<br \/>With His Voice So Distinctive And Unique<br \/>With His Backwards Beret And His Two Step Sashay<br \/>The Little Big Man Still Reaches For His Peak<\/p>\n<p>Rudy&#8217;s The Man That&#8217;s Been With The Band<br \/>From The Moment The Name Came To Be<br \/>His Mane Now Restrained, He Still Rocks Like A Hurricane<br \/>Always Impressive With His Famous Flying V<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Is The One That Seems To Have All The Fun<br \/>The Women Can&#8217;t Seem To Resist His Smile<br \/>In Spandex So Tight, To All The Ladies Delight<br \/>Even Us Guys Just Like The Man&#8217;s Style<\/p>\n<p>Rieckermann Is New, And Kottack Too<br \/>But They Both Seem To Balance The Band Well<br \/>As We Fans At Thezoo, Await Another Album Due<br \/>And Look Forward To The Tickets To Go On Sale<\/p>\n<p>Yes Hail, Hail To The Scorpions<br \/>The Band That Has Given Us Their All<br \/>We Love Em&#8217; Today, As Much As We Loved Em&#8217; Yesterday<br \/>And Tomorrow We Will Love Em&#8217; Even More<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; Marcus A. Christian<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone here at ScorpsNews. I was looking for a poem that my friend wrote about the Scorpions and Christmas. However, I was not able to find it when I was looking for it. Since I couldn&#8217;t find that one, I will post one of his other poems about the [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}