{"id":6456,"date":"2014-03-07T20:55:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2014-03-07T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:55:58","slug":"the-symphonic-finnish-prog-rock-concept-album-about-scrooge-mcduck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/the-symphonic-finnish-prog-rock-concept-album-about-scrooge-mcduck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Symphonic Finnish Prog-Rock Concept Album About Scrooge McDuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/s1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6457\" alt=\"Finnish prog-rock concept album about Scrooge McDuck\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/s1.jpg?resize=610%2C305\" width=\"610\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy bejeebus i could kick myself for not thinking of this first. (Although \u00a0i pray Disney doesn&#8217;t swing in and sue)<\/p>\n<p>So,\u00a0Tuomas Holopainen, keyboardist of Finnish prog-metal band Nightwish, is releasing his solo debut,\u00a0<i>The Life And Times Of Scrooge<\/i>, on April 15. And by Scrooge, he means of course Scrooge McDuck.<\/p>\n<p>That is right, it\u2019s a symphonic prog rock concept album based on Don Rosa\u2019s graphic novel\u00a0<i>The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck<\/i>, which traces the origin of Scrooge McDuck (which as a dork who used to read the old, classic Carl Barks Donald Duck comics i can tell you is rife with awesomeness).<\/p>\n<p>It is due out on April 15, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the first song released from the album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - A Lifetime of Adventure (OFFICIAL VIDEO)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JWwSVOo5K_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy bejeebus i could kick myself for not thinking of this first. (Although \u00a0i pray Disney doesn&#8217;t swing in and sue) So,\u00a0Tuomas Holopainen, keyboardist of Finnish prog-metal band Nightwish, is releasing his solo debut,\u00a0The Life And Times Of Scrooge, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}