{"id":38617,"date":"2017-05-21T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38617"},"modified":"2017-05-19T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T22:28:33","slug":"what-fans-never-knew-about-weird-al-yankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/21\/what-fans-never-knew-about-weird-al-yankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fans Never Knew About Weird Al Yankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ONh7Po0p18\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 19 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With his seemingly endless optimism and light-hearted satire, Weird Al Yankovic has a power that goes beyond innovative lyrics and catchy tunes: he makes people happy. But Weird Al Yankovic&#8217;s path to success hasn&#8217;t always been smooth sailing. Here are the weirdest moments in Weird Al&#8217;s journey from a nerdy, accordion-playing teen to the Prince of Parody&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Demento | 0:23<br \/>\nBathroom success | 1:15<br \/>\nVoice actor | 1:52<br \/>\nBand-mates forever | 2:35<br \/>\nThe Saga Begins | 3:05<br \/>\nTop 10 triumph | 3:54<br \/>\nThe UHF bomb | 4:33<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 19 May 2017 With his seemingly endless optimism and light-hearted satire, Weird Al Yankovic has a power that goes beyond innovative lyrics and catchy tunes: he makes people happy. But Weird Al Yankovic&#8217;s path to success hasn&#8217;t always been smooth sailing. Here are the weirdest moments in Weird Al&#8217;s journey from a nerdy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[122,200,463,518],"class_list":["post-38617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-parody","tag-weirdal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617","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=38617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions\/38618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}