{"id":791,"date":"2009-06-12T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/?p=791"},"modified":"2009-06-21T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T07:53:10","slug":"zappa-replica-heads-to-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/archives\/791","title":{"rendered":"Zappa replica heads to the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vilnius-life.com\/culture\/culture_details\/31-Frank_Zappa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/m.031.jpg\" alt=\"m.031\" title=\"m.031\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/m.031.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/m.031-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>In an odd quirk of history, the only place a statue existed to the musician Frank Zappa was not in his home town of Baltimore, USA, but in Vilnius, Lithuania; a place never visited by the man or in any way connected to the town.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was was erected during the heady years following independence from the USSR and has attracted it&#8217;s fair share of visitors during the years since.<\/p>\n<p>Soon a copy of the famous bust will be heading it&#8217;s way top the US as a gift.  Hopefully the Americans will find a nice spot for it.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian correspondent Viktoras Jakovlevas over at Euranet has a small piece about it.  Why not pop over and have a listen?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euranet.eu\/eng\/Today\/News\/English-News\/Lithuania-sends-Zappa-home\">Euranet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an odd quirk of history, the only place a statue existed to the musician Frank Zappa was not in his home town of Baltimore, USA, but in Vilnius, Lithuania; a place never visited by the man or in any way connected to the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}