{"id":195092,"date":"2010-01-18T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89233"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:16:37","slug":"general-larry-platt-%e2%80%9cthe-view%e2%80%9d-video-pants-on-the-ground-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195092","title":{"rendered":"General Larry Platt \u201cThe View\u201d VIDEO [&#8220;Pants On The Ground&#8221; LIVE]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often imitated, but never duplicated: Hilarity ensues when <em>The View<\/em> and <em>American Idol<\/em> 9 breakout star General Larry Pratt commemorate MLK Day with a live performance of Pratt&#8217;s original single &#8220;Pants On The Ground!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h5HJAhNkFgg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h5HJAhNkFgg&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Platt is veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and took part in Alabama&#8217;s 1965 &#8220;Bloody Sunday March&#8221; from Selma to Birmingham with the late Dr. King.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I was walking one day, and [I saw] a guy with a baby bottle in his mouth, and he had his pants on the ground. And that&#8217;s what gave me the inspiration,&#8221;<\/em> the 63-year-old said, explaining the inspiration behind the animated hit that has become a viral sensation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hzffEOizRtlD4iY8Do1uJz3Alkk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hzffEOizRtlD4iY8Do1uJz3Alkk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hzffEOizRtlD4iY8Do1uJz3Alkk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hzffEOizRtlD4iY8Do1uJz3Alkk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often imitated, but never duplicated: Hilarity ensues when The View and American Idol 9 breakout star General Larry Pratt commemorate MLK Day with a live performance of Pratt&#8217;s original single &#8220;Pants On The Ground!&#8221; Platt is veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and took part in Alabama&#8217;s 1965 &#8220;Bloody Sunday March&#8221; from Selma to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}