{"id":761,"date":"2008-02-20T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=761"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:11:43","slug":"alan-tam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Alan Tam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alan Tam&nbsp;[\u8c2d\u548f\u9e9f] was, along with Leslie Che\u00adung, a big name in Hong Kong can\u00adtopop dur\u00ading the 1980s. All I have is a cas\u00adsette made in <span class=\"caps\">HK<\/span>, with no Eng\u00adlish on it. The songs are all \u201claid-back\u201d bal\u00adlads that would sat\u00adisfy any Per\u00adry Como or Bar\u00adry White fan. The ones I like best on the tape are \u201c\u6c34\u4e2d\u82b1\u201d and \u201c\u64c1\u62b1\u201d, strict\u00adly on the basis of the smooth\u00adness of the singing. Not for any\u00adone who has a low thresh\u00adold for&nbsp;mush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Tam&nbsp;[\u8c2d\u548f\u9e9f] was, along with Leslie Che\u00adung, a big name in Hong Kong can\u00adtopop dur\u00ading the 1980s. All I have is a cas\u00adsette made in <span class=\"caps\">HK<\/span>, with no Eng\u00adlish on it. The songs are all \u201claid-back\u201d bal\u00adlads that would satisfy&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=761\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cs-listening-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8700,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}