{"id":761,"date":"2020-04-25T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=761"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:19:56","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-barbra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/happy-belated-birthday-barbra\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy (Belated) Birthday Barbra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is inspired by the fact that the singer, Barbra Streisand, had her 78th birthday yesterday &#8211; Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I should stress that the link is not to &#8220;Somewhere over the Rainbow&#8221; but rather &#8220;Somewhere&#8221; from West Side Story. I had the pleasure of playing in the orchestra for a production of this back in my &#8216;scottish&#8217; days. When this is used in the finale it is an incredibly emotional reprise of the song.<\/p>\n<p>This arrangement and performance is one that I have loved for many years &#8211; hopefully some of you will also enjoy it.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cAu3a7CMA84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbra Streisand : Somewhere<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cAu3a7CMA84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is inspired by the fact that the singer, Barbra Streisand, had her 78th birthday yesterday &#8211; Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[99,104],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-opera","tag-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}