{"id":106,"date":"2003-10-18T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-18T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=106"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"melvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2003\/10\/18\/melvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvis is not dead – he just lost some weight and moved to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

Melvis is essentially a Hong Kong Chinese busker who looks (or at least, dresses) like Elvis (in his Las Vegas incarnation) and performs short and almost incomprehensible Elvis songs at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

We were out last night, and one of the guys with us saw Melvis in the street and asked him to come in and play for us. He did a very short Hound Dog<\/cite>, and a brilliant A Little Less Conversation<\/cite>. He has a remarkable talent for cutting to the very essence of each song, leaving out frills like melody and recognisable lyrics.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elvis is not dead – he just lost some weight and moved to Hong Kong. Melvis is essentially a Hong Kong Chinese busker who looks (or at least, dresses) like Elvis (in his Las Vegas incarnation) and performs short and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,7],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-hong-kong","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}