{"id":140,"date":"2008-05-09T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-05-10T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T22:52:31","slug":"was-not-was-is-still-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Was (Not Was) is, still is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So Friday night at World Cafe Live, where a reactivated Was (Not Was) kicked out the Motor City jams for a loyal, if not quite teeming, crowd of revelers, I walked in persuadable and walked out persuaded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Show review from Jonathan Valania In The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/magazine\/20080505_Was__Not_Was__is__still_is.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inquirer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;d be hard-pressed to unearth a more unlikely band of &#8217;80s hitmakers than Was (Not Was), the Detroit funk-soul-bebop-rock band masterminded by fake brothers Don and David Was and fronted by powerhouse R&#038;B vocalists Sweet Pea Atkinson and Sir Harry Bowens, who had both &#8220;Walk the Dinosaur&#8221; and &#8220;Spy in The House Of Love&#8221; land in the top 20 from their 1988 album What Up, Dog?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/entertainment\/music\/20080502_Fake_brothers_refound_each_other_-_and_their_groove.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with Dan DeLuca in the Inquirer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So Friday night at World Cafe Live, where a reactivated Was (Not Was) kicked out the Motor City jams for a loyal, if not quite teeming, crowd of revelers, I walked in persuadable and walked out persuaded.&#8221; Philadelphia Show review from Jonathan Valania In The Inquirer &#8220;You&#8217;d be hard-pressed to unearth a more unlikely band [&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\/140"}],"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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}