{"id":569,"date":"2007-10-13T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:20:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:20:43","slug":"filler-by-proxy-lv-all-together-now-if-they-can-send-one-eurodisco-group-to-a-war-zone-why-cant-they-send-all-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/10\/filler-by-proxy-lv-all-together-now-if-they-can-send-one-eurodisco-group-to-a-war-zone-why-cant-they-send-all-of-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy LV: All together now! “If they can send one Eurodisco group to a war zone, why can’t they send all of them?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
From The St. Petersburg Times<\/span>, 9 October:<\/div>\n
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“Ra-Ra-Rasputin! Russia\u2019s greatest love machine!\u201d<\/a> These are not exactly the kind of lyrics you might expect the Georgian government to consider appropriate as part of its struggle to win back control of the tiny pro-Russian separatist region of South Ossetia. Nevertheless, informed sources insist that those flamboyant disco-era swingers, Boney M, are on their way to the Georgian-controlled sector of the conflict zone this month.<\/div>\n
Boney M will perform in a rural village in volatile South Ossetia. Not a sentence I thought I would ever write, even amid the everyday surrealism of life in the Caucasus. But maybe someone here thought that a sweet blast of \u201cSunny,\u201d not to mention the deathless \u201cDaddy Cool,\u201d would help convince the separatists that Georgia has the best tunes.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The BBC confirmed today that, as suggested above, Boney M were big in the USSR, and are still popular in the former Soviet nations, and that “Marcia Barrett played a concert<\/a> in a small frontline village not far from the rebel capital Tskhinvali.”<\/p>\n

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili told the BBC he hoped the music would persuade people to lay down their arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other band members didn’t come because they’re all touring the world in separate groups, each one claiming to be the real Boney M. Presumably, the other Boney M bands are not in Iraq and Darfur right now.<\/div>\n

Hopefully, the success of this concert will lead to a touring production of the stage musical<\/a> visiting rebel-held regions of Georgia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The St. Petersburg Times, 9 October: “Ra-Ra-Rasputin! Russia\u2019s greatest love machine!\u201d These are not exactly the kind of lyrics you might expect the Georgian government to consider appropriate as part of its struggle to win back control of the tiny pro-Russian separatist region of South Ossetia. Nevertheless, informed sources insist that those flamboyant disco-era […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}