{"id":250,"date":"2007-02-09T01:19:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T06:19:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-09T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T10:30:58","slug":"grammys-treasure-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammys-treasure-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Obligatory GRAMMYS Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We feel it would be of benefit for those of us who feel compelled to tune in for at least a stretch of the GRAMMYS to have a &#8220;treasure hunt&#8221;-style checklist of expected moments to track. Perhaps you will want to take a drink whenever one of these <strong>Obligatory GRAMMYS Moments<\/strong> takes place, but that is optional.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VENK01pBTvI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThings we expect to add to this list, which we will make available as a downloadable .pdf document, include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First wasted acceptance speech<\/li>\n<li>Artist joined, in mid-song, by a robed choir<\/li>\n<li>Sting&#8217;s slow-motion prance, long coat flapping as his knees kick up, during an instrumental break in &#8220;Walking on the Moon&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>First presenter given the &#8220;hook&#8221; for going on too long with acceptance speech<\/li>\n<li>Award winner\/performer thanks the Lord<\/li>\n<li>Award winner\/performer thanks a lord other than Jesus, such as Zeus or Poseidon<\/li>\n<li>Each time a Beyonce\/Shakira\/Jessica\/J-Lo\/Fergie of the night employs the <strong>bowling pin alignment<\/strong> dance arrangement: Big star in front, 2 dancers behind her, 3 dancers behind them forming a triangle of dancers all doing the same steps<\/li>\n<li>All-star tribute to James Brown (led by <strong>Red Hot Chilli Peppers<\/strong> and Sting)<\/li>\n<li>Performer who offers the most awkward and inelegant &#8220;I&#8217;m for the troops, but against the war&#8221; to court both liberals and conservatives<\/li>\n<li>First artist to get BLEEPED during presentation\/performance<\/li>\n<li>First artist to slip a curse word by the censors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the idea. Please help add to this list. Ideally we&#8217;ll come up with a list to publish here later tonight. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We feel it would be of benefit for those of us who feel compelled to tune in for at least a stretch of the GRAMMYS to have a &#8220;treasure hunt&#8221;-style checklist of expected moments to track. Perhaps you will want to take a drink whenever one of these Obligatory GRAMMYS Moments takes place, but that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammys-treasure-hunt\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}