{"id":3049,"date":"2013-11-05T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2013-11-05T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:39:46","slug":"a-street-performers-best-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2013\/11\/05\/a-street-performers-best-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Street Performer&#8217;s Best Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/george-hrab\">George Hrab<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geologicpodcast.com\">Geologic Podcast<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave<\/strong> it to our good friend George Hrab to send us a music-related coincidence, and one of the nicest ones you&#8217;ll ever see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According<\/strong> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2013\/11\/jimmy-somerville-surprises-street-singer-berlin-singing-smalltown-boy.html\">source article<\/a>, this Berlin street performer was minding his own business playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Xa79n1CdKY\">&#8220;Smalltown Boy&#8221; by Bronski Beat <\/a>when who should walk by? Jimmy Somerville, the group&#8217;s lead singer. I&#8217;ll let the video (sadly filmed sideways) explain the rest:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_DWWE3cjgg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>I<\/strong> can only imagine both people were just as thrilled by the moment, but for entirely different reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to our good friend George Hrab to send us a music-related coincidence, and one of the nicest ones you&#8217;ll ever see.<br \/>\nAccording to the source article, this street performer was minding his own business playing &#8220;Smalltown Boy&#8221; by Bronski Beat when who should walk by? Jimmy Somerville, the group&#8217;s lead singer. I&#8217;ll let the video explain the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,154,868,826],"tags":[1312,1313,161,1314,1315,606,1316,1317,1318,1319,825],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-news","category-staff-editorials","category-videos","tag-berlin","tag-bronski-beat","tag-george-hrab","tag-guitar","tag-jimmy-somerville","tag-music","tag-singing","tag-smalltown-boy","tag-song","tag-street-performer","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}