{"id":130,"date":"2008-04-12T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-04-12T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T23:06:18","slug":"was-not-was-on-nprs-weekend-edition-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Was (Not Was) On NPR&#8217;s Weekend Edition Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend Edition Saturday, April 12, 2008 &#8211; For almost 30 years, David Weiss and Don Fagenson, along with a rotating cast of musical pranksters, have melded funk and absurdity as the band Was (Not Was).<\/p>\n<p>The group has just released a new album, Boo!, its first new release in more than 15 years. Bandleaders Weiss and Fagenson \u2014 a.k.a. David Was and Don Was, respectively \u2014 joined Weekend Edition Saturday&#8217;s Scott Simon from the studios of NPR West to discuss their unique music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89535582\" target=\"_blank\">Links to tracks from Boo! on the site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend Edition Saturday, April 12, 2008 &#8211; For almost 30 years, David Weiss and Don Fagenson, along with a rotating cast of musical pranksters, have melded funk and absurdity as the band Was (Not Was). The group has just released a new album, Boo!, its first new release in more than 15 years. Bandleaders Weiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}