{"id":1643,"date":"2009-12-21T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T07:53:40","slug":"today-is-frank-zappa-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Today is Frank Zappa Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2009\/zappa-statue.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Zappa statue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is officially <strong>Frank Zappa<\/strong> Day in Baltimore.  Mayor <strong>Sheila Dixon<\/strong> has declared it so.  Last week, Baltimore&#8217;s public art commission decided that it will erect a bust of Zappa outside a public library.  The statue of Zappa was donated over a year ago by a Lithuanian Zappa fan club.  Since that time, city officials have looked at various places to put the 15-foot piece of art, before finally deciding to place it in front of the Southeast Anchor library in the Highlandtown district of Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>If Frank Zappa were still alive, today would have been his 69th birthday.   He passed away in 1993, 16 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His music and words continue to inspire countless musical enthusiasts.   One can&#8217;t help but wonder what he&#8217;d think of the current socio-economic-political situation these days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d be both amused and disgusted by it all&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We miss you, Frank!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hDAm03GK8rkJvC6bhj71o1BqsAvgD9CNP32G1\">Associated Press article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/midnight_sun\/blog\/2009\/12\/frank_zappa_statue_to_go_near.html\">Baltimore Sun article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisbrandx.com\/2009\/12\/fly-your-freak-flag-high-today-is-frank-zappa-day.html\">Los Angeles Times article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbal.com\/apps\/news\/templates\/story.aspx?articleid=42147&#038;zoneid=3\">WBAL- Baltimore Radio news article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZazEM8cgt0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is officially Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore. Mayor Sheila Dixon has declared it so. Last week, Baltimore&#8217;s public art commission decided that it will erect a bust of Zappa outside a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-garage-rock","category-louie-universe","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}