{"id":1456,"date":"2025-12-23T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:03:26","slug":"episode-178-christmas-special-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/episode-178-christmas-special-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 178: Christmas Special: Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a very merry murdery Deliver Us Some Evil Christmas special! Eli and Mel slide down the chimney to share the gruesome story of one family who just didn&#8217;t have what it took to get through the holidays in one piece. It might not have been a dark and stormy night back in 2013 but Christmas morning revealed something much worse than a stocking full of coal to the windy city when eighteen-year-old Alexis Valdez dialed 911. And if that&#8217;s not enough to jingle your bells, Eli reaches back into his own personal history for a heartwarming story of his own, one that luckily had a different ending. So deck the halls and spike that eggnog &#8217;cause Old Saint DUSE is coming to town in\u2026 Illinois!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Christmas Special: Illinois\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7dqqtDx1ej2wdNs2PB8km4?si=e290b2447359430d&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired December 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very merry murdery Deliver Us Some Evil Christmas special! Eli and Mel slide down the chimney to share the gruesome story of one family who just didn&#8217;t have what it took to get through the holidays in one piece. It might not have been a dark and stormy night back in 2013 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[79,37,91,80,31],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-chicago","tag-christmas","tag-fifty-states-of-murder","tag-illinois","tag-special"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/episode-178-Fifty-States-of-Murder-Illinois.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}