{"id":13001,"date":"2015-07-24T05:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13001"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T21:02:05","slug":"18-fun-facts-about-the-blues-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13001","title":{"rendered":"18 Fun Facts About &#8220;The Blues Brothers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z072415bluesbros_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Roger Cormier<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present<strong><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65269\/18-fun-facts-about-blues-brothers\" target=\"_blank\">18 Fun Facts About The Blues Brothers<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6. ONE OF THE STUNT DRIVERS WAS JOHN WAYNE\u2019S SON.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Duke&#8217;s youngest son, Ethan Wayne, began acting in 1970. But he supplemented his work in front of the camera with a handful of stunting stints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>10. THE STUDIO WANTED THE BAND WHO SANG &#8220;CAR WASH&#8221; INSTEAD OF ARETHA FRANKLIN.<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversal Pictures wanted new acts like Rose Royce, the band behind hits like &#8220;Car Wash&#8221; and &#8220;I Wanna Get Next to You.&#8221; But Aykroyd and company said no. Universal later generated a PR effort to get Franklin an Oscar nomination for her performance. The movie helped revitalize her career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>12. PAUL REUBENS HAS A SMALL BUT VISIBLE ROLE.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe actor best known as Pee-wee Herman played a waiter at Chez Paul, before the band is fully back together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 18 Fun Facts About The Blues Brothers. Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 6. ONE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13005,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13001\/revisions\/13005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}