{"id":1166,"date":"2014-07-25T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowsuburbandeath.com\/2014\/07\/25\/funksoul-friday-tune-summer-madness\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:26:19","slug":"funksoul-friday-tune-summer-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Funk\/Soul Friday tune: Summer Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kool &amp; The Gang - Summer Madness\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2SFt7JHwJeg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No words.\u00a0 Just music from back in the day, when Kool and the Gang was still menacingly cool.\u00a0 <!--more-->They seemed to capture the urban rhythms with every song, including this &#8220;Summer Madness,&#8221; which seemed to mellow out a tough, fast paced day.\u00a0 This is cool down music for a hot summer day.\u00a0 It is also a departure from the earlier Kool and the Gang sound, which was so raunchy and funk filled with its daring lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>This song was also featured as background music in &#8220;Rocky,&#8221; when it was still a very cool movie about a small time boxer.<\/p>\n<p>Kool and the Gang made many great songs before unraveling to become a disco pop nightmare following the success of &#8220;Celebration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(c) 2014 Slow Suburban Death. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No words.\u00a0 Just music from back in the day, when Kool and the Gang was still menacingly cool.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,33],"tags":[145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}