{"id":786,"date":"2025-09-08T15:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=786"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:03:07","slug":"mm-1928-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/09\/08\/mm-1928-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1928\/1959"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife (HD\/Lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LW4kbz-y4PU?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Mack the Knife&#8221;\u00a0<mark>originated in a 1928 German play, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, serving as a &#8220;murder ballad&#8221; for the gangster anti-hero Macheath (Mackie Messer)<\/mark>.\u00a0The song&#8217;s history traces back to the 18th-century play\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=10&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1070US1070&amp;cs=0&amp;sca_esv=25325fc5d1c09e24&amp;q=The+Beggar%27s+Opera&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi1l5fr18WPAxXf87sIHZELDsAQxccNegQIBhAB&amp;mstk=AUtExfB6uPGGKLcaNVk2ha80KkQYob1i_ni67fWxg_LTs1cKZvZp3VpYeDgZX0lQqrb111FHgsOmiA91jvb9hZLtjdyv_NUIyOOR6MzLY0ofjqiyWvhXI8xTI70_TvTc7u9ihmGqjTVKVDjjTr65NqEL4jffNRjYLN2eM3B6gMgq1e917zsHQc13ukMAxI0_a2PCvVC-&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Beggar&#8217;s Opera<\/a>\u00a0by John Gay, which featured a highwayman character and critiqued corruption.\u00a0In the 20th century, Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin brought the song to prominence with popular jazz and pop versions in the late 1950s, solidifying its place in mainstream culture.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mack the Knife&#8221;\u00a0originated in a 1928 German play, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, serving as a &#8220;murder ballad&#8221; for the gangster anti-hero Macheath (Mackie Messer).\u00a0The song&#8217;s history traces back to the 18th-century play\u00a0The Beggar&#8217;s Opera\u00a0by John Gay, which featured a highwayman character and critiqued corruption.\u00a0In the 20th century, Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}