{"id":30453,"date":"2015-02-28T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30453"},"modified":"2015-02-27T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T03:07:22","slug":"leonard-nimoy-the-ballad-of-bilbo-baggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/28\/leonard-nimoy-the-ballad-of-bilbo-baggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy &#8211; The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGF5ROpjRAU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 6 Sep 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, a body gets a hankering that only Leonard Nimoy singing about hobbits while surrounded by 60&#8217;s pixie chicks can sate. Fortunately, we live in a world where those hankerings need not go unfulfilled!<\/p>\n<p>This was originally filmed in 1967, on a variety show called <em>Malibu U<\/em>. The colour portion of the video is from &#8220;Funk Me Up Scotty,&#8221; a 1996 documentary from BBC2 about the musical careers of the cast of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em>. The show cut the last verse and an instrumental\/dance interlude, which I&#8217;ve restored using black &#038; white footage from I know not where.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded on 6 Sep 2011 Sometimes, a body gets a hankering that only Leonard Nimoy singing about hobbits while surrounded by 60&#8217;s pixie chicks can sate. Fortunately, we live in a world where those hankerings need not go unfulfilled! This was originally filmed in 1967, on a variety show called Malibu U. The colour portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[311,293,223,420],"class_list":["post-30453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-obituary","tag-startrek","tag-thehobbit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30455,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30453\/revisions\/30455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}