{"id":24475,"date":"2025-09-19T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24475"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:58:15","slug":"the-first-appearance-of-spinal-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24475","title":{"rendered":"The First Appearance of Spinal Tap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch comedy TV show from 1979 features what is probably the first ever TV appearance of Spinal Tap. I was planning to post this right before <b>Spinal Tap II: The End Continues<\/b> came out, but I got distracted by shiny objects and the movie came out last week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBFnN0GALoU?si=-L9hoU-8J8SFfStT&amp;start=902\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alas, the sequel seems to have done very poorly at the box office, so I might just have to wait for it on DVD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sketch comedy TV show from 1979 features what is probably the first ever TV appearance of Spinal Tap. I was planning to post this right before Spinal Tap II: The End Continues came out, but I got distracted by shiny objects and the movie came out last week. Alas, the sequel seems to have [&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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,474,12],"tags":[1982,105,1987,1974],"class_list":["post-24475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","category-video","tag-music","tag-this-is-spinal-tap","tag-tv","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475","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=24475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25430,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24475\/revisions\/25430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}