{"id":953,"date":"2008-10-11T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T14:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-10-11T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T15:03:13","slug":"japanese-country-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/11\/japanese-country-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese country song contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do like to write songs?\u00a0 Do you know some Japanese?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s your chance to come up with a Japanese country song, i.e., a U.S.-style country song in Japanese (or at least half in Japanese).\u00a0 Send in your lyrics to me at <a href=\"mailto:stevenwaseda@jetwit.com\">stevenwaseda [at] jetwit.com<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll worry about the tune later (unless you also come up with a tune and a recording and want to share that too.)\u00a0 If it&#8217;s even half decent, I&#8217;ll publish it here, at which time other readers can offer an appropriate tune, new lyrics or try to record a version of the song.\u00a0 This will be an ongoing contest with no deadline.\u00a0 Multiple submissions welcome!<\/p>\n<p>This idea, btw, was inspired by a Chinese country music video sent to me by my wife (a high school Chinese teacher).\u00a0 It is not only hilarious, but also has amazing choreography, costumes and&#8230; I can&#8217;t even begin to explain it.\u00a0 Just watch.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xs2hiqtfv7A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do like to write songs?\u00a0 Do you know some Japanese?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s your chance to come up with a Japanese country song, i.e., a U.S.-style country song in Japanese (or at least half in Japanese).\u00a0 Send in your lyrics to me at stevenwaseda [at] jetwit.com.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll worry about the tune later (unless you also come up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,9,21,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest","category-humor","category-music","category-translatinginterpreting","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}