{"id":2238,"date":"2007-04-12T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T03:53:35","slug":"daffodil-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/just-browsing\/daffodil-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Daffodil Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Cumbrian Tourist board, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golakes.co.uk\/wordsworthrap\/\">Wordsworth for the YouTube generation<\/a>. Yep. Wordsworth&#8217;s &#8220;I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud&#8221; has been turned into into a rap in order to make it appeal to a new, younger audience.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A spokesman for Cumbria Tourism, which was behind the innovative approach to th. poem, said: &#8216;Wordsworth&#8217;s Daffodils poem has remained unchanged for 200 years and to keep it alive for another two centuries, we wanted to engage the You Tube generation who want modern music and amusing video footage on the web&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I don&#8217;t mind the rap nearly as much as I mind the guy dressed up as a squirrel in the video&#8230;er, that&#8217;s MC Nuts&#8230;actually Sam the mascot for the Ullswater Steamers. <i>shudder<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There were no daffodils in bloom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/archives\/002012.html\">the last time I was in the Lake District<\/a> and, I&#8217;m happy to report. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/archives\/002013.html\">no rapping squirrels<\/a> either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This left me speechless and AJM had to leave the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}