{"id":17961,"date":"2016-10-10T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17961"},"modified":"2016-10-10T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:25:35","slug":"tribute-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17961","title":{"rendered":"Tribute band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got a great idea for a tribute band.  Our band would do only cover versions of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s <i>Hallelujah<\/i>.  Nothing else &#8212; just that one song.<\/p>\n<p>Except that we would do it in every conceivable style:  Blues, Bossa Nova, Calypso, Country, Death Metal, Doo-wop, Dub, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Gospel, Goth, Grunge, Klezmer, Lounge, Motown, New Wave, Polka, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Punk, Ragtime, Rap, Reggae, R&#038;B, Rockabilly, Ska, Soul, Swing, Techno, and of course Zydeco.<\/p>\n<p>Our interpretations would fill entire albums.  Eventually, this thing would grow beyond us, to become an ever-expanding movement.  People all around the world would spontaneously start to host their own <i>Hallelujah<\/i> parties, raves, concerts, even theme parks.<\/p>\n<p>Entire channels on YouTube would be devoted to new and exciting interpretations of <i>Hallelujah<\/i>.  This could be just the beginning of something really big.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got a great idea for a tribute band. Our band would do only cover versions of Leonard Cohen&#8217;s Hallelujah. Nothing else &#8212; just that one song. Except that we would do it in every conceivable style: Blues, Bossa Nova, Calypso, Country, Death Metal, Doo-wop, Dub, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Gospel, Goth, Grunge, Klezmer, Lounge, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tribute band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17962,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}