{"id":34223,"date":"2005-09-13T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/13\/annoying-renditions-of-the-songs-of-elvis\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T10:00:21","slug":"annoying-renditions-of-the-songs-of-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050913-21\/?p=34223\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying renditions of the songs of Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Nayder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/programs\/ams\/ams.asp\"> <i>The Annoying Music Show<\/i><\/a> pops by NPR studios every so often&mdash;hey, guys, if you changed the locks, this might stop him&mdash;whereupon he tortures the general public with musical offenses that should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Most recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4798238\"> he offered a series of reinterpretations of the works of Elvis Presley<\/a>. What&#8217;s really scary is that the songs presented in the segment are among the <strong>less<\/strong> awful offerings. For genuine musical pain, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/wesat\/20050813_wesat_nayder&amp;mediaType=WM\">Love Me Tender [WMV]<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/wesat\/20050813_wesat_nayder&amp;mediaType=RM\">Real<\/a>] as performed by &#8220;Sweden&#8217;s Singin&#8217; Sensation&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/eilertpilarm.to\/\"> Eilert Pilarm<\/a>. (Quick tip: &#8220;Lyssna&#8221; is Swedish for &#8220;listen.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p> [Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Nayder of The Annoying Music Show pops by NPR studios every so often&mdash;hey, guys, if you changed the locks, this might stop him&mdash;whereupon he tortures the general public with musical offenses that should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Most recently, he offered a series of reinterpretations of the works of Elvis Presley. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-34223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Jim Nayder of The Annoying Music Show pops by NPR studios every so often&mdash;hey, guys, if you changed the locks, this might stop him&mdash;whereupon he tortures the general public with musical offenses that should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Most recently, he offered a series of reinterpretations of the works of Elvis Presley. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}