{"id":3963,"date":"2006-12-30T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2006-12-30T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T21:45:55","slug":"james-brownin-the-hot-tuin-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"James Brown&#8230;In the Hot Tu&#8217;&#8230;In Memoriam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ly_CGin6QS8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ly_CGin6QS8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"190\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"right\"><\/embed><\/object>If you watch only one funeral this weekend, we recommend James Brown&#8217;s. CNN was carrying it a good deal, MSNBC a bit less, and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; a lot less than that (even while they have plenty of time to run Saddam&#8217;s gallows video on a loop, and ran the Saddleback Christmas service several times in full, as if it was news, on Christmas Eve and Day.)<\/p>\n<p>But since we didn&#8217;t find any of the awesome performances from the Godfather&#8217;s funeral yet up and online, and have yet to run an &#8216;In Memoriam&#8217; for him, let&#8217;s take the satirical way out. Imitation being the highest form of flattery and all. At right, Ed Murphy&#8217;s hysterical tribute, from his early golden SNL days, to the once and forever Godfather of Soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watch only one funeral this weekend, we recommend James Brown&#8217;s. CNN was carrying it a good deal, MSNBC a bit less, and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; a lot less than that (even while they have plenty of time to run Saddam&#8217;s gallows video on a loop, and ran the Saddleback Christmas service several times in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}