{"id":689,"date":"2007-06-18T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/blue_colar_oper.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"blue_colar_oper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/blue_colar_oper.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Blue Collar Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i0dzZTPWrSM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Consider this your feel good video link of the day.  I&#8217;m not a big opera fan, but listen to this blue collar, cell phone store worker sing from the Brittan&#8217;s Got Talent.  No, It&#8217;s not a spoof or lip sync&#8217;ed.<br \/>\nHe won, and I think they could have pretty much scrapped the entire season and just given him the prize after this audition.  OK, then we wouldn&#8217;t have heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nothingimportantto.us\/pivot\/entry.php?id=1144\">the 6 year old sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow<\/a>, so it was worth it.<br \/>\nI guess his (former) boss is a big opera fan, throwing opera parties every year, and had absolutely no idea he could do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this your feel good video link of the day. I&#8217;m not a big opera fan, but listen to this blue collar, cell phone store worker sing from the Brittan&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/blue_colar_oper.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Collar Opera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blue Collar Opera - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/blue_colar_oper.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blue Collar Opera - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Consider this your feel good video link of the day. 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