{"id":1455,"date":"2017-02-14T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2017-02-14T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:00:54","slug":"song-of-the-day-26-kokusho-sayuri-valentine-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/song-of-the-day-26-kokusho-sayuri-valentine-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #26: Kokusho Sayuri &#8211; Valentine Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQ2bK_jqzP4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK, if you know Japanese music you had to know what was coming. Valentine Kiss is the most popular Valentine&#8217;s Day song in Japan, one that has been covered many times, and is just a classic. While I tend to listen to the Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 cover more than anything else (it modernized the song well and the new arrangement is a little more upbeat), the classic version is what I&#8217;m recommending today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge something that&#8217;s become a major classic, but Valentine Kiss has an addictive melody and lyrics &#8211; even though my Japanese skills are pretty mediocre, this is a song I know by heart. Also, given the success of covers like Watarirouka Hashiritai 7 and its continued popularity, Valentine Kiss holds up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, if you know Japanese music you had to know what was coming. Valentine Kiss is the most popular Valentine&#8217;s Day song in Japan, one that has been covered many times, and is just a classic. While I tend to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/song-of-the-day-26-kokusho-sayuri-valentine-kiss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}