{"id":231697,"date":"2010-01-26T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90342"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T16:58:43","slug":"%e2%80%9cdancing-inmates%e2%80%9d-perform-michael-jackson%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cthis-is-it%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231697","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDancing Inmates\u201d Perform Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThis Is It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Dancing Inmates&#8221; from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center are paying homage to the King of Pop again. The inmates at the maximum security prison in the Philippines rose to fame after they choreographed their own rendition of Michael Jackson&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Thriller&#8221; video in 2007. The video became a viral smash, and the prisoners have gone on to perform several other tributes to MJ, like this one:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mKtdTJP_GUI&#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\/mKtdTJP_GUI&#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>The guys were recently treated to a visit by Michael Jackson&#8217;s long-time choreographer Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid, where they learned the steps that would have featured on Michael&#8217;s 2009 comeback tour, &#8220;This Is It.&#8221; The new video &#8212; which debuted on Friday &#8212; is already approaching 1 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NCeX6kqVt5G5peASUlacmYeaA50\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NCeX6kqVt5G5peASUlacmYeaA50\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NCeX6kqVt5G5peASUlacmYeaA50\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NCeX6kqVt5G5peASUlacmYeaA50\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Dancing Inmates&#8221; from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center are paying homage to the King of Pop again. The inmates at the maximum security prison in the Philippines rose to fame after they choreographed their own rendition of Michael Jackson&#8217;s iconic &#8220;Thriller&#8221; video in 2007. The video became a viral smash, and the prisoners [&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-231697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231697","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=231697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}