{"id":283615,"date":"2014-08-21T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=283615"},"modified":"2014-08-21T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:47:15","slug":"derick-watts-the-sunday-blues","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/derick-watts-the-sunday-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Derick Watts &amp; The Sunday Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wearethesundayblues\" target=\"_blank\">Derick Watts &amp; The Sunday Blues<\/a> have made waves both locally &amp; internationally with their unique brand of comedy, using YouTube as their platform of choice. Known for their tongue-in- cheek parody music videos (\u201cBraaiday\u201d, \u201cThe Car Guard Song\u201d, \u201cMovember Song\u201d) as well as their original animated series (\u201cChat Sandwich\u201d, \u201cHippo &amp; Croc\u201d), their work has been featured on sites such as TIME Magazine, Huffington Post, The Telegraph and Will Ferrell\u2019s Funny or Die.<\/p>\n<p>They were also adjudged by Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee as winners of the international Movember video competition in 2012, beating out hundreds of entrants worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, consisting of Nicholas Smal &amp; Gareth Allison, recently signed with Los Angeles-based network The Collective, and have worked with local favourites Ard Matthews, Dr. Michael Mol, Rob van Vuuren &amp; even Derek Watts himself on some of their videos.<br \/>\nThey are currently stealing the hubcaps off your car as you are reading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derick Watts &amp; The Sunday Blues have made waves both locally &amp; internationally with their unique brand of comedy, using YouTube as their platform of choice. Known for their tongue-in- cheek parody music videos (\u201cBraaiday\u201d, \u201cThe Car Guard Song\u201d, \u201cMovember Song\u201d) as well as their original animated series (\u201cChat Sandwich\u201d, \u201cHippo &amp; Croc\u201d), their work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9355949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-283615","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3711f305b22d3a64e9a0bfa16105542e88a1f8baf0578fe5e93f6cf6e3ea4a6?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/283615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9355949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/283615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283617,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/283615\/revisions\/283617"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/283621?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=283615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}