{"id":1633,"date":"2017-02-28T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2017-03-02T23:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T23:26:50","slug":"nikki-webster-busting-out-strawberry-kisses-on-sunrise-might-save-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikki-webster-busting-out-strawberry-kisses-on-sunrise-might-save-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Webster Busting Out &#8216;Strawberry Kisses&#8217; On &#8216;Sunrise&#8217; Might Save 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nikki-619-386.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nikki-619-386-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nikki-619-386-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nikki-619-386.png 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christ the Sydney Olympics feel like a lifetime away. <\/p>\n<p>The dawn of the new millennium. The domination by Aussie athletes. The &#8216;Battler&#8217;s Prince&#8217;, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat. It was all so goddamn fun.<\/p>\n<p>And while the new millennium has unfortunately turned out to be absolute garbage, we can at least delight in this bizarre reminder of that simpler, far off time of 2000: Nikki Webster, the then-13-year-old star of the opening ceremony, has performed her hit Strawberry Kisses on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Singing live on Sunrise yesterday morning, the now 29-year-old Webster appeared because Karaoke Climb is inexplicably now a thing and weatherman Sam Mac apparently experienced divine intervention\/heatstroke: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    \u201cMy producer told me about Bridge Climb Karaoke and said we had the opportunity to take one special guest up.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cFor some unknown reason, presumably divine intervention, I saw a vision of Nikki Webster flying over the bridge with me just behind her dropping a nine-second rap sequence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So go ahead. Watch it, and try not to feel even the smallest, foggiest bit of nostalgic joy. <\/p>\n<p>Although fair warning, Kochie is shown dancing towards the end, so maybe actually just watch the start.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMrSamMac+%2Fvideos%2F1109985975795655%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Did you see that?! Fuck, maybe there is a little bit of that 2000 magic out there after all.<\/p>\n<p>If you can handle any more of this insanity, check out the original music vid below.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pc0JXDiZQ5k?list=PLhKi8saywT6NNFHBiit2UuMAKqunKQudJ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Chris Woods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pedestrian.tv\/news\/arts-and-culture\/nikki-webster-busting-out-strawberry-kisses-on-sun\/6efbd183-4266-4baf-8beb-97ab63ac2c07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pedestrian.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ the Sydney Olympics feel like a lifetime away. The dawn of the new millennium. The domination by Aussie athletes. The &#8216;Battler&#8217;s Prince&#8217;, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat. It was all so goddamn fun. And while the new millennium has unfortunately turned out to be absolute garbage, we can at least delight in this bizarre reminder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikki-webster-busting-out-strawberry-kisses-on-sunrise-might-save-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikki Webster Busting Out &#8216;Strawberry Kisses&#8217; On &#8216;Sunrise&#8217; Might Save 2017<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-62"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}