{"id":918,"date":"2007-07-12T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/flight-of-the-conchords\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T18:53:36","slug":"flight-of-the-conchords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/flight-of-the-conchords\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the Conchords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki and I happened to catch the Flight of the Conchords a few nights ago and we were completely blown away by how good it is.  As far as I can tell from just one episode the idea is like this:  basically a very good sitcom about two guys from New Zealand living in New York, with utterly hilarious nerd hip-hop and folk music thrown into the middle of each episode.  You just have to see it to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, here&#8217;s one of their better raps:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/conchords\/video\/index.html\">more here<\/a>, but I&#8217;m tearing myself away from that site so I don&#8217;t spoil the other episodes I haven&#8217;t seen yet.  There&#8217;s also lots of stuff on YouTube from their stand-up comic days if you look for it.  Be sure to check it out, you won&#8217;t be sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki and I happened to catch the Flight of the Conchords a few nights ago and we were completely blown away by how good it is. As far as I can tell from just one episode the idea is like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/flight-of-the-conchords\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}