{"id":6850,"date":"2016-10-31T04:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2016-10-31T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T03:02:13","slug":"weird-al-yankovik-to-sing-at-blizzcon-2016s-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2016\/10\/31\/weird-al-yankovik-to-sing-at-blizzcon-2016s-closing-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovik to sing at BlizzCon 2016&#8217;s closing ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, new threads on the General Discussion forum started showing up about what Blizzard has chosen as the artist for BlizzCon&#8217;s closing ceremony. Most of the responses have been negative, &#8220;he was funny when I was a teenager&#8221; to &#8220;is Blizzard trying to ruin themselves&#8221;.<br \/>\nTo ones who don&#8217;t know who he is, Weird Al has grown in popularity due to doing parodies of popular songs, such as &#8216;Just Eat It&#8217;; being a parody of Micheal Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Just Beat It&#8217; (and &#8216;Fat&#8217; being a parody of the same artist&#8217;s &#8216;Bad&#8217;) just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting choice, Blizzard. Though <em>I<\/em> would had gone with something like <em>Imagine Dragons<\/em>, but.. just my personal opinion. I still like Weird Al, but I like that other band more (not because it has the word &#8220;dragon&#8221; in it, but because their music is pretty good).<br \/>\nI hope he does a WoW Parody (though I don&#8217;t know what of that he could use). And it will be cool to see him in real life, singing.<br \/>\nDefinitely worth buying a ticket and have some mandatory fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, new threads on the General Discussion forum started showing up about what Blizzard has chosen as the artist for BlizzCon&#8217;s closing ceremony. Most of the responses have been negative, &#8220;he was funny when I was a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2016\/10\/31\/weird-al-yankovik-to-sing-at-blizzcon-2016s-closing-ceremony\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}