{"id":3826,"date":"2008-08-27T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2008-08-27T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:00:19","slug":"the_weng_weng_overture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/the_weng_weng_overture\/","title":{"rendered":"the weng weng overture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most things online about the late 2&#8217;9&#8243; Filipino action star <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weng_Weng\">Weng Weng<\/a> creep me out because they tend to smack just ever so faintly of racist exoticizing, but I have to admit I do really like this Weng Weng rap, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/chudsunderground\">The CHUDs<\/a>:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eqh5O9LbjhY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eqh5O9LbjhY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThe lyrics are <a href=\"http:\/\/chuds.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/weng-weng-lyrics.html\">on their site<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to sing along plus you can <a href=\"http:\/\/28004.spreadshirt.com\/us\/US\/Shop\/\">buy Weng Weng shirts<\/a>\u2014and if you still haven&#8217;t had enough Weng Weng, the Australian guerilla filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewleavold.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew Leavold<\/a>&#8216;s currently working on a documentary called <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/site\/view\/the-search-for-weng-weng-continues\/\">The Search For Weng Weng<\/a>, billed as the <em>&#8220;ultimate history of Filipino B-films, and chronicles Leavold&#8217;s obsessive quest to find the truth behind the midget James Bond of the Philippines.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nI know the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subwaycinema.com\/\">New York Asian Film Festival<\/a> doesn&#8217;t screen documentaries but I&#8217;m hoping they make an exception for this one, I&#8217;d really love to see it!<br \/>\n[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesbutnobutyes.com\/\">YesButNoButYes<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most things online about the late 2&#8217;9&#8243; Filipino action star Weng Weng creep me out because they tend to smack just ever so faintly of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}