{"id":57915,"date":"2011-08-21T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57915\/hey-ya-friendburst-downtime\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:06:54","slug":"hey-ya-friendburst-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57915\/hey-ya-friendburst-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"HEY! YA!  What Did You Do With Your FriendBurst Downtime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">So what did you do with your two hours of no Friendburst?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Me, I worked on a cover of one of my favorite songs.\u00a0 It\u2019s a cover of a cover, as a guy named Mat Weddle made a somewhat-famous YouTube cover of Outkast\u2019s Hey Ya!\u00a0 Of course, he used one of those big, 6-stinged bass ukulele contraptions for his\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Enjoy!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">I have\u00a0 a weird personal history with this song.\u00a0 Back in 2005, it was a big hit, all over TV and the radio. Both my fiancee and I really liked it, and the Outkast video was released while we on our marriage trip in Las Vegas.\u00a0 It played over and over and over.\u00a0 I suppose it was \u201cour song\u2026\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Sort of an omen that the marriage would last less than 2 years as the song is all about breaking up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Arts_\/Pictures\/2003\/06\/05\/lennox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>I went to a wedding of some friends of mine once where the deejay decided to play Annie Lennox\u2019s \u201cWhy\u201d (another famous break up song) as the newly married couple\u2019s first dance together.\u00a0 Most of us at the reception were fairly music savvy and we were looking at each other with raised eyebrows as the bride and groom danced.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I did with my two hours away from FriendBurst was to knock on the door of the upstairs neighbors to talk about their children peering in my window all hours of the day.\u00a0 If you managed to make it to the end of my video above, you will see the exact moment I decided to do this\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what did you do with your two hours of no Friendburst? Me, I worked on a cover of one of my favorite songs.\u00a0 It\u2019s a cover of a cover, as a guy named Mat Weddle made a somewhat-famous YouTube cover of Outkast\u2019s Hey Ya!\u00a0 Of course, he used one of those big, 6-stinged bass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[4092,81,4091,106],"class_list":["post-57915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-music","tag-hey-ya","tag-joko","tag-outkast","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}