{"id":1851,"date":"2008-03-21T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/21\/chocolate-rain\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:03:47","slug":"chocolate-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/chocolate-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And the winner for best music video: &#8220;Chocolate Rain.&#8221; Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song &#8220;Chocolate Rain&#8221; &#8211; an amateur clip of his baritone crooning &#8211; went viral last year. Now he&#8217;s among the 12 winners of the second annual YouTube Video Awards, recognizing the top user-created videos of 2007.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news125297050.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EwTZ2xpQwpA&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the winner for best music video: &#8220;Chocolate Rain.&#8221; Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song &#8220;Chocolate Rain&#8221; &#8211; an amateur clip of his baritone crooning &#8211; went viral last year. Now he&#8217;s among the 12 winners of the second annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/chocolate-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chocolate Rain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,61],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-tR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}