{"id":4248,"date":"2011-01-16T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:31:49","slug":"where-the-band-name-zz-top-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/where-the-band-name-zz-top-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Band Name ZZ Top Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ZZ-Top-Band-Name-Origin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4249\" title=\"ZZ-Top-Band-Name-Origin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ZZ-Top-Band-Name-Origin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ZZ-Top-Band-Name-Origin.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ZZ-Top-Band-Name-Origin-340x188.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ZZ Top Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/the-only-member-of-zz-top-that-doesnt-have-a-beard-is-frank-beard\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting ZZ Top Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The name ZZ Top, according to band member Billy Gibbons, came from a tribute to B.B. King.\u00a0 The band originally were going to call themselves \u201cZ.Z. King\u201d in King\u2019s honor, but then decided it was too similar to B.B. King.\u00a0 Because B.B. King was at the \u201ctop\u201d of the blues world, they changed it to ZZ Top.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting ZZ Top Facts Text Version The name ZZ Top, according to band member Billy Gibbons, came from a tribute to B.B. King.\u00a0 The band originally were going to call themselves \u201cZ.Z. King\u201d in King\u2019s honor, but then decided it was too similar to B.B. King.\u00a0 Because B.B. King was at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1183,1184,1185],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-zz-top","tag-music-facts","tag-music-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}