{"id":459,"date":"2010-07-02T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-07-09T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T16:13:15","slug":"7210-the-4th-of-july-cat-fight-only-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/2010\/07\/02\/7210-the-4th-of-july-cat-fight-only-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/2\/ &#038; 7\/9\/10 &#8211; The 4th Of July Cat Fight (Only In America)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday Night Cat Fight<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Only In America&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"4th Of July Cat Fight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolholidaygraphics.com\/4thofjuly\/clipart\/independencedayclipart9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"260\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This week, the Friday Night Cat Fight takes on a song about the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; that was a hit for Jay &amp; The Americans in August of 1963.\u00a0 The tune was originally presented to and recorded by The Drifters.\u00a0 However, Atlantic didn&#8217;t feel that they could release a tune that spoke of opportunity for all by a black group at that time.\u00a0 Now, it&#8217;s your turn to judge who had the better song.\u00a0 Listen to the Cat Fight and vote for your favorite version of &#8220;Only In America&#8221; below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Have a safe and happy 4th of July!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><div id=\"polls-75\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_75\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/FNCF\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_75_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"fb3662c9f0\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which One Do You DIG The MOST? - \"Only In America\"<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-75-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-236\" name=\"poll_75\" value=\"236\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-236\">The Drifters (1963)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-237\" name=\"poll_75\" value=\"237\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-237\">Jay &amp; The Americans (1963)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(75);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(75);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(75); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(75); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-75-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6778\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-459-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF81.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF81.mp3\">https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF81.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?powerpress_pinw=459-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF81.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"FNCF81.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay &#038; The Americans hit version of &#8220;Only In America&#8221; take on the Drifters&#8217; original recording of the tune on the 4th of July special &#8220;Friday Night Cat Fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rb","category-rock-n-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}