{"id":4136,"date":"2008-12-11T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2008-12-11T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:56:48","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Marconi's 1901 feat, sending the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyhistory.com\/events\/1901\/december_11_1901_68348.html\">transatlantic radio signal<\/a>, here's a link to the only song I can think of that mentions Marconi - a song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=we+built+this+city+worst+song&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">widely recognized<\/a> as the worst song ever:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uH-UqB7uYiE&hl=en&fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uH-UqB7uYiE&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And believe it or not, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songs_written_by_Bernie_Taupin\">Bernie Taupin<\/a>, the guy who wrote the lyrics for all those classic Elton John songs (\"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me\", \"Bennie And The Jets\", \"Crocodile Rock\", \"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\", \"Honky Cat\", \"Levon\", etc..) , also wrote these lyrics. I hope he was drunk at the time. And every day since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Marconi's 1901 feat, sending the first transatlantic radio signal, here's a link to the only song I can think of that mentions Marconi - a song widely recognized as the worst song ever: And believe it or not, Bernie Taupin, the guy who wrote the lyrics for all those classic Elton John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}