{"id":12172,"date":"2014-01-20T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2014-01-19T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:52:46","slug":"steam-powered-giraffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12172","title":{"rendered":"Steam Powered Giraffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then you run across something curious enough that you go &#8220;Hmm, people should know about this!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The band <a href=\"http:\/\/steampoweredgiraffe.com\/\">Steam Powered Giraffe<\/a> is just such an entity. I mean, how many other retro pantomime Steampunk harmony bands are there out there?<\/p>\n<p>An example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gQWY-JOhF2I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Fire Fire,&#8221; a little outer-space disaster ditty:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kLNgD5vsZsM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like the harmonies, but overall they&#8217;re a little softer than the mainstream of music I care for. <\/p>\n<p>You wonder what the popularity plateau for a band like this is. There are a surprising number of Steampunk conventions popping up around the country, but the answer may be something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/asylumstreet\">the Asylum Street Spankers<\/a>, who had almost a two decade career where they both made a living and never had a song or album chart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then you run across something curious enough that you go &#8220;Hmm, people should know about this!&#8217; The band Steam Powered Giraffe is just such an entity. I mean, how many other retro pantomime Steampunk harmony bands are there out there? An example: Here&#8217;s &#8220;Fire Fire,&#8221; a little outer-space disaster ditty: I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,12],"tags":[1982,1729,220,1974],"class_list":["post-12172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-video","tag-music","tag-steam-powered-giraffe","tag-steampunk","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12180,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions\/12180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}