{"id":4894,"date":"2012-05-18T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2012-05-18T19:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:34:01","slug":"when-in-doubt-theres-sissel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4894","title":{"rendered":"When in doubt, there&#8217;s Sissel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I don&#8217;t have anything on my mind tonight, <\/strong>so I&#8217;ll fall back on a YouTube video. This clip captures a definitive moment in the career of Sissel Kyrkjeb\u00f8 (the Greatest Singer in the World). It was 1986, and she was selected to sing an &#8220;interval&#8221; number during the Eurovision Song Contest, which is a big deal over there every year. She dressed in the traditional <i>bunad <\/i>(folk costume) of her home city, Bergen, and sang Bergen&#8217;s official anthem, &#8220;Jeg Tok Min Nystemte Cithar i Hende&#8221; (&#8220;I Took My Newly Tuned Zither in Hand&#8221;). This was her first introduction to a wider European public, though she was already pretty famous in Norway. I think you&#8217;ll understand why she was a hit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWir4Qh7odA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have anything on my mind tonight, so I&#8217;ll fall back on a YouTube video. This clip captures a definitive moment in the career of Sissel Kyrkjeb\u00f8 (the Greatest Singer in the World). It was 1986, and she was selected to sing an &#8220;interval&#8221; number during the Eurovision Song Contest, which is a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When in doubt, there&#8217;s Sissel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}