{"id":12163,"date":"2007-01-25T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/sweep-the-leg\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T13:52:00","slug":"sweep-the-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/sweep-the-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweep The Leg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/popcandy\/2007\/01\/the_return_of_z.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Candy posted<\/a> about the triumphant return of perennial &lsquo;80s movie villain <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0951420\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Zabka<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their new single, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweeptheleg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweep the Leg<\/a> [check out the video!], a band called No More Kings pays tribute to the <i>Karate<\/i> baddie, and Zabka willfully plays along. The whole thing must be seen to be believed: Directed by Zabka himself, the epic brings Johnny, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0468379\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Kove<\/a> (Cobra Kai) and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001494\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Macchio<\/a> into a present-day scenario and even features a cameo by <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0368172\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Haskins<\/a> (Mr. Belding from <i>Saved by the Bell<\/i>). At one point, Zabka and Kove reenact the pivotal scene from the original film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The song was decent, but I really enjoyed the video, for obvious reasons.  I had no idea that Zabka had done so much (and was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0951420\/awards\" target=\"_blank\">nominated for an Oscar<\/a>!) since his movie roles in the &#8217;80s.  Keep an eye out for some other (minor) cameos&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/nostalgia\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-4966887726843345205?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Candy posted about the triumphant return of perennial &lsquo;80s movie villain William Zabka: In their new single, Sweep the Leg [check out the video!], a band called No More Kings pays tribute to the Karate baddie, and Zabka willfully plays along. The whole thing must be seen to be believed: Directed by Zabka himself, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/sweep-the-leg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweep The Leg!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}