{"id":6136,"date":"2011-06-03T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/the-grand-rapids-lipdub-this-video-was-created\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:53:17","slug":"the-grand-rapids-lipdub-this-video-was-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/the-grand-rapids-lipdub-this-video-was-created\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Rapids LipDub<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a &ldquo;dying city.&rdquo; We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean&rsquo;s &ldquo;American Pie,&rdquo; a song about death, was in the end, triumphant and filled to the brim with life and hope.&ldquo; &#8211; Rob Bliss, Director &amp; Executive Producer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Rapids LipDub This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a &ldquo;dying city.&rdquo; We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean&rsquo;s &ldquo;American Pie,&rdquo; a song &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/the-grand-rapids-lipdub-this-video-was-created\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}