{"id":2089,"date":"2010-10-01T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2010-10-01T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:31:00","slug":"silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2091\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2091\" title=\"cage\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/10\/cage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Cage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would he have approved ? John Cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2010\/sep\/30\/christmas-no1-facebook-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">reported in <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>\u00a0yesterday, efforts are already underway to fix this year&#8217;s Christmas no.1: although this time, it&#8217;s a piece with a difference.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign on Facebook is attempting to drive John Cage&#8217;s notorious 4&#8242; 33&#8243; to the top seasonal spot this December, in order to confound the usual hopes of chart-topping crooning from the Simon Cowell X-Factor stable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUJagb7hL0E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m up for it: who&#8217;s with me ?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/&amp;t=Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/&amp;title=Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/&amp;title=Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in The Guardian\u00a0yesterday, efforts are already underway to fix this year&#8217;s Christmas no.1: although this time, it&#8217;s a piece with a difference. A campaign on Facebook is attempting to drive John Cage&#8217;s notorious 4&#8242; 33&#8243; to the top seasonal spot this December, in order to confound the usual hopes of chart-topping crooning from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/10\/01\/silent-night-cage-for-christmas-no-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silent Night: Cage for Christmas no.1 ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[1388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}