{"id":7215,"date":"2010-12-21T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/thedailywhat-in-case-you-were-wondering-of-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:12:54","slug":"thedailywhat-in-case-you-were-wondering-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/thedailywhat-in-case-you-were-wondering-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywh.at\/post\/2364865124\/in-case-you-were-wondering-of-the-day-from\" target=\"_blank\">thedailywhat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>In Case You Were Wondering of the Day:<\/strong> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2010\/12\/homeless-street-musician-goes-viral-on-youtube-gets-a-record-deal-turns-his-life-around.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hypebot<\/a>: \u201cIn the beginning, Daniel [Mustard] was a homeless alcoholic street musician. He came into the Opie &amp; Anthony studios for their annual Homeless Shopping Spree. In passing, he said that he was a musician. The studio staff, being curious and having no idea what to expect, found him a guitar. Reportedly, he performed an original song that stunned the entire staff. Then they asked him to play a cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube video of Mustard performing Radiohead\u2019s \u201cCreep\u201d went viral overnight, and changed everything. He entered a halfway house as part of a rehabilitation program and was offered a record deal by Story Records, which recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielmustardmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his debut EP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore appearing on the Opie and Anthony Show, I never gave any thought about becoming a star,\u201d Mustard <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/ashemag\/docs\/ashemag_12_10_48_issuu\/17?viewMode=presentation&amp;zoomed=true&amp;zoomPercent=136.90476190476193&amp;zoomXPos=0.5004500450045004&amp;zoomYPos=0.39357290946786455\" target=\"_blank\">recently told <em>Asheboro Magazine<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI still don\u2019t think of it much, but it seems closer now than it did before, and it\u2019s keeping me motivated to stay off the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good show, Internet. Good show.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2010\/12\/homeless-street-musician-goes-viral-on-youtube-gets-a-record-deal-turns-his-life-around.html\" target=\"_blank\">hypebot<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/98697\/The-Stuff-Dreams-Are-Made-Of\" target=\"_blank\">mefi<\/a>.]<\/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>thedailywhat: In Case You Were Wondering of the Day: From Hypebot: \u201cIn the beginning, Daniel [Mustard] was a homeless alcoholic street musician. He came into the Opie &amp; Anthony studios for their annual Homeless Shopping Spree. In passing, he said that he was a musician. The studio staff, being curious and having no idea what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/thedailywhat-in-case-you-were-wondering-of-the\/\" 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-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","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=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}