{"id":1089,"date":"2016-06-19T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2016-06-21T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:24:59","slug":"michael-leonhart-orchestra-tackles-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Michael Leonhart tackles Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-winning\u00a0trumpeter\/composer\/producer\/arranger\u00a0Michael Leonhart\u00a0has performed\/recorded with Yoko Ono, James Brown, Meryl Streep, Caetano Veloso, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Steely Dan and the Charles Mingus Big Band.\u00a0Michael&#8217;s trumpet playing was recently featured on Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars&#8217; smash hit &#8220;Uptown Funk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of these renowned artists who have\u00a0continually\u00a0kept\u00a0an eye on politics and human rights issue, Michael crafted &#8220;Ronald Rump&#8221; with his Michael Leonhart Orchestra, a form of\u00a0political satire using the uniquely brazen dialogue of Donald Trump from the public domain, featuring Nelson Cline on guitar!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RONALD RUMP The Michael Leonhart Orchestra (MLO)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhKKvJde234?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-winning\u00a0trumpeter\/composer\/producer\/arranger\u00a0Michael Leonhart\u00a0has performed\/recorded with Yoko Ono, James Brown, Meryl Streep, Caetano Veloso, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Steely Dan and the Charles Mingus Big Band.\u00a0Michael&#8217;s trumpet playing was recently featured on Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars&#8217; smash hit &#8220;Uptown Funk&#8221;. In the spirit of these renowned artists who have\u00a0continually\u00a0kept\u00a0an eye on politics and human rights issue, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Leonhart tackles Donald Trump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[119,123,38,116,122,118,120,124,125,48,117,36,121,37],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-frontier","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-charles-mingus-big-band","tag-donald-fagen","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-ivana-trump","tag-laurie-anderson","tag-meryl-streep","tag-michael-leonhart","tag-political-satire","tag-steely-dan","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-walter-becker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}