{"id":62228,"date":"2015-10-12T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62228"},"modified":"2015-10-12T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:43:02","slug":"la-dolce-vita-columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62228","title":{"rendered":"La Dolce Vita &#8211; Columbus Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Columbus Day.\u00a0 So, here ya go &#8211; a musical &#8220;blast from the past&#8221;, down-under style.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re old enough, you might even remember this one.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CODHZyvn83Q?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth:\u00a0 the singer&#8217;s professional name is &#8220;Joe Dolce&#8221; &#8211; and that also happens to be his real name. He was born in Ohio, and has apparently been a US ex-pat in Australia for close to 40 years now (since about 1978). This was his biggest hit.<\/p>\n<p>The song was a huge international hit in 1981.\u00a0 It hit #1 in a number countries (15) &#8211; including the UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Italy; was #2 in Canada; and charted in the US.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, he&#8217;s of Italian-American heritage.\u00a0 His Italian-American grandparents were reportedly the inspiration for the song.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a problem with the song, I suggest you talk to Joe. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll listen &#8211; as he&#8217;s on the way to the bank to cash his next royalty check. And then I&#8217;d guess he&#8217;ll refer you to the song&#8217;s title.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re offended, I&#8217;d also suggest you find a quarter and buy a clue &#8211; or a sense of humor &#8211; and quit being outraged over <em>nada.<\/em>\u00a0 As I noted above, the song was a #1 hit in freaking <em>Italy<\/em>.\u00a0 So if Italians of the day didn&#8217;t have a problem with it and made it a #1 hit, I&#8217;m thinking you shouldn&#8217;t have a problem with it either.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Columbus Day, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Columbus Day.\u00a0 So, here ya go &#8211; a musical &#8220;blast from the past&#8221;, down-under style.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"La Dolce Vita &#8211; Columbus Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62228\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Dolce Vita &#8211; Columbus Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}