{"id":28104,"date":"2021-02-09T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/boy-from-hanoi-us-ambassador-to-vietnam-releases-his-own-lunar-new-year-rap"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:31:00","slug":"boy-from-hanoi-us-ambassador-to-vietnam-releases-his-own-lunar-new-year-rap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28104","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boy from Hanoi&#8217;: US ambassador to Vietnam releases his own lunar new year rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a \u2018full assault on the art of rap\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The US ambassador to Vietnam has recorded an original rap and music video ahead of Tet, the lunar new year, risking inevitable ridicule by styling himself as \u201cthe boy from Hanoi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m from Nebraska. I\u2019m not a big city boy,\u201d raps Dan Kritenbrink in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=3737285872985789\">song<\/a>, released on the US embassy in Hanoi\u2019s Facebook group. \u201cThen three years ago I moved to Hanoi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/boy-from-hanoi-us-ambassador-to-vietnam-releases-his-own-lunar-new-year-rap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a \u2018full assault on the art of rap\u2019 The US ambassador to Vietnam has recorded an original rap and music video ahead of Tet, the lunar new year, risking inevitable rid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-us-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28106,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}