{"id":6069,"date":"2021-12-13T17:34:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:35:18","slug":"brian-williams-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6069","title":{"rendered":"Brian Williams Raps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Journalist and anchorman Brian Williams signed off for the final time last night after 28 years with NBC. You can see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o5AoMNF7dnE\" target=\"_blank\">his farewell<\/a> from last night&#8217;s episode of\u00a0<em>The 11th Hour<\/em>\u00a0on MSNBC. We wish him the best in his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s crew at\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0has had a lot of fun with Williams&#8217; news footage, editing him word by word into popular rap songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are genius (warning: some explicit lyrics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian Williams Raps compilation\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/269726233?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and anchorman Brian Williams signed off for the final time last night after 28 years with NBC. You can see\u00a0his farewell from last night&#8217;s episode of\u00a0The 11th Hour\u00a0on MSNBC. We wish him the best in his retirement. Over the years, Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s crew at\u00a0The Tonight Show\u00a0has had a lot of fun with Williams&#8217; news footage, editing him word by word into popular rap songs. These are genius (warning: some explicit lyrics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1zT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}