{"id":50823,"date":"2025-07-15T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/weird-al-is-enjoying-his-rock-star-moment\/15\/07\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:51:20","slug":"weird-al-is-enjoying-his-rock-star-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/weird-al-is-enjoying-his-rock-star-moment\/15\/07\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Al Is Enjoying His Rock-Star Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>At 65, Weird Al still commands the stage like a natural-born rocker, with high kicks and the panache to pull off what few other artists can (including a fat suit). <\/p>\n<p>During \u201cEat It,\u201d a riff on Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBeat It,\u201d audience members \u2014 many in Hawaiian shirts and sporting curly locks \u2014 were on their feet. Even a seen-it-all security guard danced. For \u201cWhite &amp; Nerdy,\u201d Weird Al arrived via scooter, to the thump of Chamillionaire\u2019s \u201cRidin\u2019.\u201d Father-son pairs, arm-in-arm, knew every lyric. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2025\/07\/15\/arts\/music\/weird-al-is-enjoying-his-rock-star-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 65, Weird Al still commands the stage like a natural-born rocker, with high kicks and the panache to pull off what<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/weird-al-is-enjoying-his-rock-star-moment\/15\/07\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/07\/14\/multimedia\/CUL-WEIRD-AL-10-bfkw\/CUL-WEIRD-AL-10-bfkw-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}