{"id":1256,"date":"2008-09-10T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2008-09-10T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:48:56","slug":"midweek-makeover-wouldnt-it-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/10\/midweek-makeover-wouldnt-it-be-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some covers are transformative in what they take away from the original, rather than in what they add to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkershaw.net\/index.asp?sound=off\">Nik Kershaw<\/a>&#8216;s Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Good (go on, hit play.\u00c2\u00a0 You know it):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And then strip it down to its bare essence, as Soulwax did:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object width=\"300\" height=\"110\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/C6euhNRsaA\/aus=false\/\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/C6euhNRsaA\/aus=false\/\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some covers are transformative in what they take away from the original, rather than in what they add to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Take Nik Kershaw&#8216;s Wouldn&#8217;t It Be Good (go on, hit play.\u00c2\u00a0 You know it): [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU[\/youtube] And then strip it down to its bare essence, as Soulwax did: Brilliant, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}