{"id":297,"date":"2004-07-03T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/297"},"modified":"2004-07-03T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T16:04:05","slug":"village-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/297","title":{"rendered":"Village Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3861901.stm\">US Secretary of State Colin Powell has wowed fellow foreign ministers at an Asean security meeting, with a rousing rendition of a disco classic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Powell donned a hard hat and stuffed a hammer in his belt for the Village People&#8217;s YMCA, a massive 1970s hit.<\/p>\n<p>He was backed by five US officials, all imitating the gaily flamboyant outfits of the original band.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNor was it the first time Mr Powell has caused a sensation at the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, a skit in which he rolled around on the floor in a love duet with his then Japanese counterpart Makiko Tanaka was universally panned, and prompted harsh words from his wife Alma.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, he ran a video compilation of the world and his wife, literally, begging him not to sing again. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious as to how this went over with the rest of the homophobic Bush administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Colin Powell has wowed fellow foreign ministers at an Asean security meeting, with a rousing rendition of a disco classic. Mr Powell donned a hard hat and stuffed a hammer in his belt for the Village People&#8217;s YMCA, a massive 1970s hit. He was backed by five US officials, all imitating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}