{"id":946,"date":"2011-01-01T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=946"},"modified":"2011-01-01T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:03:05","slug":"a-musical-welcome-for-lucy-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"A Musical Welcome for Lucy Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year!
\nI’d list my resolutions, but there are far too many for this space. (I know<\/em> this is the Internet and that technically I could prattle on, but somehow I don’t think you would stick with me up to resolution no. 348.) Instead, let’s bring in the new by giving a warm, musical welcome to a new book. Today is the official release date for Wendy Shang’s<\/a> debut novel, The Great Wall of Lucy Wu<\/a>. This book has lots of references to basketball and Chinese food, but the musical world is decidedly short on songs about bao zi and foul shots. Werewolves of London mentions a Chinese restaurant, but since we’re trying not to invoke werewolves (this is a realistic middle grade) I’m going with the (slightly obvious) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. <\/p>\n

Here’s The Beatles version:
\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

And you can follow this link to hear John Lennon and Elton John singing together<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For the hat trick, I’m throwing in the less obvious William Shatner Version. We have this on LP, but someone out there made this lovely video:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Welcome, Lucy Wu! May a newspaper taxi take you right to the top of the bestseller list!<\/p>\n

Watch this space for my interview with Wendy on Jan. 13th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! I’d list my resolutions, but there are far too many for this space. (I know this is the Internet and that technically I could prattle on, but somehow I don’t think you would stick with me up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidlit","category-music","category-musical-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}