{"id":28119,"date":"2011-06-18T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28119"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:05:57","slug":"lawrence-welk-meets-velvet-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28119","title":{"rendered":"Underground, Welk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i48BP1PUoFI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;In 1968, The Velvet Underground finally found a large, mainstream audience during a performance on the Lawrence Welk Show&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My parents were just the right age to LOVE <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Welk\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Welk.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When I was really, really young, they even took me to a concert. While his band was playing, he came over and talked to us.<\/p>\n<p>I was still just young enough to be really cute. So I had to ask him, &#8216;How come you can&#8217;t count past two?&#8217; (which is a joke only a diehard Welk fan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EOmDCabIZR0\" target=\"_blank\">would get<\/a>). He laughed. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday night was Welk night. Early Saturday night, not too late. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welkmusicalfamily.com\/welknetwork.html\" target=\"_blank\">still is.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Welk was sponsored by the always present, always hyped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XjnTN8Y3DSU\" target=\"_blank\">Geritol.<\/a> Which I grew up thinking was THE wonder drug that could solve all problems and cure all.<\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/moderndog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Robynne Raye<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Underground, Welk\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28119\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In 1968, The Velvet Underground finally found a large, mainstream audience during a performance on the Lawrence Welk Show&#8217; My parents were just the right age to LOVE Lawrence Welk. When I was really, really young, they even took me to a concert. While his band was playing, he came over and talked to us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28119"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28125,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28119\/revisions\/28125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}