{"id":2070,"date":"2022-10-24T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T22:37:54","slug":"the-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"The Wiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week in 1978 the movie version of <em>The Wiz<\/em>, which debuted as a Broadway stage production in 1975, hit theaters. The re-imagining of <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em> featured an all-black cast including Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. The movie marked Michael Jackson&#8217;s acting debut.   A special single edit of <em>A Brand new day<\/em> <em>(Everybody Rejoice)<\/em>, one of the songs from <em>The Wiz<\/em>, peaked at number one on the charts in Belgium and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;A Brand New Day (Everybody Rejoice)&#039; from THE WIZ: 1080p\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fc7_1GAYNOw?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1978 the movie version of The Wiz, which debuted as a Broadway stage production in 1975, hit theaters. The re-imagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featured an all-black cast including Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. The movie marked Michael Jackson&#8217;s acting debut. A special single edit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[156,157],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-the-wiz","tag-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}