{"id":9277,"date":"2011-09-19T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2011-09-19T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T05:00:48","slug":"whats-so-funny-bout-terry-bradshaw-singing-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-so-funny-bout-terry-bradshaw-singing-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Funny &#8217;bout Terry Bradshaw Singing Country Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yfw8acB7TVk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>In what may surely be a damming display of my ignorance over country music, what&#8217;s so funny &#8217;bout <strong>Terry Bradshaw<\/strong> singing country music?<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw, the former Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; quarterback, is the first to laugh at himself\u2014and typically an attempt at launching a singing career by a professional athlete is met with laughter. I can&#8217;t recall the last time I heard Bradshaw sing, but I would have thought it would have been laughable. This performance of a <strong>Hank Williams<\/strong> classic, however, strikes me a just fine. The arrangement is nowhere near as cool as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI\" target=\"_blank\">Hank&#8217;s original<\/a>, but how does it stack up against the following &#8220;mash-up&#8221; of a bearded <strong>Glen Campbell<\/strong> and <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-snWURVMEfg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>If I can understand how Bradshaw&#8217;s version is any worse, if that&#8217;s how you feel, I may learn something about the country genre, which is hard for me to crack. If you tell me, on the other hand, that Bradshaw&#8217;s version is indeed on par with Campbell&#8217;s and the King&#8217;s, I may end up more mystified than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may surely be a damming display of my ignorance over country music, what&#8217;s so funny &#8217;bout Terry Bradshaw singing country music? Bradshaw, the former Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; quarterback, is the first to laugh at himself\u2014and typically an attempt at launching a singing career by a professional athlete is met with laughter. I can&#8217;t recall <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-so-funny-bout-terry-bradshaw-singing-country-music\/' 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":[224,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277"}],"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=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}