{"id":199,"date":"2013-01-18T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=199"},"modified":"2013-01-18T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:30:03","slug":"friday-fun-cello-wars-the-phantom-cellist-steve-sharp-nelson-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/18\/friday-fun-cello-wars-the-phantom-cellist-steve-sharp-nelson-john-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Cello Wars: The Phantom Cellist (Steve Sharp Nelson \/ John Williams)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of instrumental music today, just for a change, with Steve Sharp Nelson and his identical cellist twin fighting a cello lightsaber battle while playing around with John Williams&#8217; music. Watch out for Darth Vader&#8217;s solo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0]<!--more-->Honestly, I can&#8217;t think of a single thing to add to this.\u00a0 It this speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>You will start cello lessons now.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see Nelson being slightly more serious (but only slightly), I can also recommend his version of J.S. Bach&#8217;s Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude, in which he undergoes mitosis into 8 versions of himself and plays both the Prelude and a fairly entertaining series of accompaniments.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for the whole &#8216;cello used like a guitar&#8217; thing, I must say.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!\u00a0 And may the force be with you!<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ry4BzonlVlw&amp;version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of instrumental music today, just for a change, with Steve Sharp Nelson and his identical cellist twin fighting a cello lightsaber battle while playing around with John Williams&#8217; music. Watch out for Darth Vader&#8217;s solo&#8230; [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,138,333,339,378,505,665,669,698],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cello","tag-classical","tag-instrumental","tag-j-s-bach","tag-john-williams","tag-music","tag-star-wars","tag-steve-sharp-nelson","tag-the-piano-guys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}