{"id":418,"date":"2021-02-14T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-03-15T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:06:52","slug":"happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the latest lockdown I&#8217;ve been recording myself singing some classic ballads, swing, musical numbers etc. &#8211; trying to dust the cobwebs off that part of my vocal repetoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This great Billy Joel song is in response to a request received last week. I do hope the requestor enjoys it. It also happens to be quite an appropriate choice for Valentine&#8217;s Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I dedicate this to my lovely wife Natalie Smith and to all you old romantics out there! Also a mention is due to &#8220;karaoke version&#8221; for the excellent quality of their backing tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Just The Way You Are\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fq3EQcCUH18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the latest lockdown I&#8217;ve been recording myself singing some classic ballads, swing, musical numbers etc. &#8211; trying to dust the cobwebs off that part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[40,2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/justwayapture.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}