{"id":1457,"date":"2008-10-06T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T16:52:46","slug":"shaft-as-youve-never-quite-heard-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shaft,&#8221; as you&#8217;ve never quite heard it . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with books, but I enjoy this so much that I&#8217;m going to post it here &#8212; bring it out of its obscurity, buried in the comments from yesterday&#8217;s post, and feature it here. Thanks to Kathe, one of our readers, for sharing it. I found this a great way to start my week, as in: People on the West Coast may have heard me hoot-laughing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5059074\/the-theme-to-shaft-ukulele-style\"><strong>Here&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> the link from which it comes. This is Isaac Hayes&#8217; &#8220;Shaft,&#8221; as performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukuleleorchestra.com\/main\/home.aspx\"><strong>the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain<\/strong><\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PfK-UzQ48JE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PfK-UzQ48JE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with books, but I enjoy this so much that I&#8217;m going to post it here &#8212; bring it out of its obscurity, buried in the comments from yesterday&#8217;s post, and feature it here. Thanks to Kathe, one of our readers, for sharing it. I found this a great way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}