{"id":47303,"date":"2017-06-26T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=47303"},"modified":"2021-09-29T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:22:55","slug":"somewhere-over-the-rainbow-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/06\/somewhere-over-the-rainbow-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Israel-Kamakawiwo\u02bbole.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Israel-Kamakawiwo\u02bbole.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The funeral and the scattering of &#8220;IZ&#8221; Kamakawiwo\u02bbole&#8217;s ashes in Hawai&#8217;i were featured in this documentary music video released posthumously. 289,584,132 YouTube views as of May 14, 2017. <strong>He died at the age of 38 on June 26, 1997.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his life, Israel &#8220;IZ&#8221; Kamakawiwo\u02bbole was morbidly obese and at one point weighed 767 pounds (348\u00a0kg) standing 6-foot-2-inch (1.88\u00a0m) tall.\u00a0 The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on July 10, 1997, the day of his funeral. His koa wood coffin lay in state at the state capitol building in Honolulu. He was the third person in Hawaiian history to be awarded this honor, and the only one who was not a government official. Approximately ten thousand people attended the funeral. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at M\u0101kua Beach in Hawai&#8217;i on July 12, 1997.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RIP dear friend with a heart so big it weighed 348 kg.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel \u201cIZ\u201d Kamakawiwo\u02bbole was morbidly obese and at one point weighed 348 kg standing 1.88 m tall.  He died at the age of 38 on JUNE 26, 1997. The Hawaii state flag flew at half-staff on the day of his funeral. Thousands of fans gathered as his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean at M\u0101kua Beach, Hawai\u2019i. This video documents the event. RIP dear friend with a heart so big it weighed 348 kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[871],"class_list":["post-47303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-music-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}