{"id":429,"date":"2006-08-11T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/08\/11\/friday-night-videos-weird-al-yankovic\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T22:30:50","slug":"friday-night-videos-weird-al-yankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Weird Al Yankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ben Folds: Rockin&#8217; the Suburbs (2001)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GUkiFLURt38\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GUkiFLURt38\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For his first solo effort post-Ben-Folds-Five, Ben Folds decided to play every instrument. It thus makes sense that, in the video, he indeed plays every instrument. Mix in suburbia and a healthy dose of awkward dancing and you have&#8230;well, this video. What&#8217;s the link to Weird Al? He directed it, and has a cameo appearance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Weird Al Yankovic: The Saga Begins (1999)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ttidEl0gXU\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ttidEl0gXU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Weird Al summarizes <i>The Phantom Menace<\/i> in five minutes and sets it to Don McLean&#8217;s &#8220;American Pie&#8221;. I get the feeling that his entire career led to this one song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Folds: Rockin&#8217; the Suburbs (2001) For his first solo effort post-Ben-Folds-Five, Ben Folds decided to play every instrument. It thus makes sense that, in the video, he indeed plays every instrument. Mix in suburbia and a healthy dose of awkward dancing and you have&#8230;well, this video. What&#8217;s the link to Weird Al? He directed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Videos: Weird Al Yankovic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}