{"id":316,"date":"2008-03-18T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:08:42","slug":"the-cute-ears-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"The Cute Ears Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My ol fren Derrick Ashong<\/a> continues to grain traction with his impromptu, utterly eloquent explanation of why he supports Obama. The latest to shine some light: the Grey Lady<\/a>. Pull quote —<\/p>\n

Mr. Ashong, with an audience of more than a million so far, thinks he knows what made the difference for him. \u201cMy ears, I have really cute ears,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video in question has now racked up 900,000 views and counting —<\/p>\n

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Shameless plug: you can hear me and Derrick on the same track in the following video, a remix I made of his band’s version of the West African classic “Sweet Mother<\/a>.” Alas, I wasn’t invited to participate in the video shoot in Ghana, but that’s me on the intro. Derrick spits the second verse, in 3 languages —<\/p>\n

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My ol fren Derrick Ashong continues to grain traction with his impromptu, utterly eloquent explanation of why he supports Obama. The latest to shine some light: the Grey Lady. Pull quote — Mr. Ashong, with an audience of more than a million so far, thinks he knows what made the difference for him. \u201cMy ears, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,133,404,403,8,409,407],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-boston","tag-hip-hop","tag-lifey","tag-media","tag-politricks","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}