{"id":1631,"date":"2017-04-20T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intlwota.com\/happydisco\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2017-04-20T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T02:20:02","slug":"song-of-the-day-91-country-musume-hajimete-no-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/04\/20\/song-of-the-day-91-country-musume-hajimete-no-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day #91: Country Musume &#8211; Hajimete no Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_d-HX5qZiWA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s been a few different Jpop birthday songs including AKB48&#8217;s Namida Surprise, the one I always turn to is Country Musume&#8217;s Hajimete no Happy Birthday. Today was my birthday and it was one of the first things I listened to today, and I&#8217;ve actually done this for the past 8-9 birthdays at least. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite as upbeat and flashy as something like Namida Surprise, but I kind of like that &#8211; it&#8217;s happy and cheerful but easy to listen to and not too fast or hyperactive. It&#8217;s the kind of feeling you want for a birthday &#8211; happy, pleasant, and not too busy. It has a pleasant melody, a solid arrangement, and is mostly just a solid idol pop song. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, you know, one of my favorite idols of all time is the star of the show here so that&#8217;s a big reason I like it. Let&#8217;s just link her solo version of the song.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5vzfevaj2dc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there&#8217;s been a few different Jpop birthday songs including AKB48&#8217;s Namida Surprise, the one I always turn to is Country Musume&#8217;s Hajimete no Happy Birthday. Today was my birthday and it was one of the first things I listened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/2017\/04\/20\/song-of-the-day-91-country-musume-hajimete-no-happy-birthday\/\">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-1631","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\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mescallado.com\/happydisco\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}