{"id":57024,"date":"2016-01-08T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57024"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:55:53","slug":"national-holiday-fodder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57024","title":{"rendered":"National Holiday-Fodder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Presley was born 81 years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>And while normally I&#8217;d write something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XA5HErVE9oI\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to talk about why it mattered to me (because that&#8217;s who the blog is about, after all)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7n_m3q7XYz4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I figure I&#8217;ll just throw some vids out there &#8211; including a fairly cool fifties-era live vid from the decks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Hancock_(CV-19)\">USS <i>Hancock<\/i><\/a>, which I&#8217;d never seen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uke1B0FpIZ8\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?tag=elvis-presley\">let Sheila O&#8217;Malley &#8211; a certifiable Elvis fanatic &#8211; do the writing<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=43682\">this piece here<\/a>, on what may be one of his best performances, &#8220;If I Can Dream&#8221;, the finale from his legendary 1968 &#8220;comeback&#8221; special:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DzdkB-hFIU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy 81st, Elvis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Presley was born 81 years ago today. And while normally I&#8217;d write something&#8230; &#8230;to talk about why it mattered to me (because that&#8217;s who the blog is about, after all)&#8230; &#8230;I figure I&#8217;ll just throw some vids out there &#8211; including a fairly cool fifties-era live vid from the decks of the USS Hancock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57025,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024\/revisions\/57025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}