{"id":2159,"date":"2007-04-23T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2007-04-23T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T02:14:00","slug":"always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;or should I title this, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a luverly bunch of Coconuts&#8221;?]<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/107050.html\" target=\"_blank\">Playbill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a promotional event for the West End production of Monty Python&#8217;s Spamalot, the city of London plans to break the Guinness world record for the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Coconut Orchestra&#8221; on April 23. The city hopes at least 2,000 people will come to Trafalgar Square, where cast members from Spamalot will lead the audience in a &#8220;clip-clop&#8221; coconut clap in time to the famed Monty Python song &#8220;Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,&#8221; which is in the show. Coconuts were provided, organizers said. The evening will end with a screening of &#8220;Holy Grail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a not-too-good video of the event:<\/p>\n<p><lj-embed id=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nHow did it turn out? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayorwatch.co.uk\/news.php?slug=Londoners-Set-Coconut-Orchestra-World-Record&amp;article_id=658\" target=\"_blank\">MayorWatch<\/a>, they broke the record with 5,567 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;or should I title this, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a luverly bunch of Coconuts&#8221;?] From Playbill: In a promotional event for the West End production of Monty Python&#8217;s Spamalot, the city of London plans to break the Guinness world record for the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Coconut Orchestra&#8221; on April 23. The city hopes at least 2,000 people will <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2159\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}