{"id":10822,"date":"2007-12-23T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T06:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/23\/10822.html"},"modified":"2007-12-23T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T06:48:20","slug":"song-videos-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/12\/23\/song-videos-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Song videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two fun videos of songs, otherwise unrelated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A very entertaining rendition of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8\">The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/a>,\" by a collegiate a cappella group called Straight No Chaser, from a 1998 concert. (P.S.: If you're as culturally clueless as me, knowing about a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsmode.com\/lyrics\/h\/howie_day\/africa.html\">other song<\/a> may come in handy at some point.) (P.P.S.: My understanding from the comments is that the core of the arrangement was written by Richard Gregory in 1968, and that it's been performed by a bunch of other a cappella groups in the past, but this performance does a couple of new things with it.)<\/li>\n<li>George W. Bush performing \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V3CmXGKXOmk\">It's the End of the World As We Know It<\/a>,\" more or less, plus lots of political commentary. (P.S.: If you're like me, you may need to refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics007.com\/R.E.M.%20Lyrics\/Its%20The%20End%20Of%20The%20World%20As%20We%20Know%20It%20(And%20I%20Feel%20Fine)%20Lyrics.html\">lyrics<\/a> to have even half a chance of following the fast parts.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two fun videos of songs, otherwise unrelated: A very entertaining rendition of &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas,&#8221; by a collegiate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}