{"id":2470,"date":"2016-04-01T20:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/01\/i-told-everyone-i-was-dead-to-make-my-folk-band-famous\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T12:10:25","slug":"i-told-everyone-i-was-dead-to-make-my-folk-band-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/01\/i-told-everyone-i-was-dead-to-make-my-folk-band-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"I told everyone I was dead to make my folk band famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jakeaprilfools\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzAxLzA4L0pha2VBcHJpbEZvLjZmN2Q1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/cc6cdb92\/917\/JakeAprilFools.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=I+told+everyone+I+was+dead+to+make+my+folk+band+famous&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F01%2Fguy-fakes-death-folk-band%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F01%2Fguy-fakes-death-folk-band%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>April Fools&#8217; Day is oversaturated with branded promotional pranks, but it&#8217;s 2016 and we all have personal brands<em>Mashable<\/em>&#8216;s wannabe pop star Jake Fertig thought there was no better way to promote his own brand than by throwing the ultimate April Fools\u2019 Day prank: faking his own death. He&#8217;s always wanted to be a poetic figure in the eyes of his family and friends, so he decided to throw a memorial concert for his folk band The Feather Brothers with his co-worker, Max Knoblauch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/on.mash.to\/1Y2UXer\">http:\/\/on.mash.to\/1Y2UXer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/01\/guy-fakes-death-folk-band\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/april-fools\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">April Fools<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/humor\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Humor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/april-fools-day\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">April Fools Day<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/videos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Videos<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/CG1SmPe1Ock\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fools&#8217; Day is oversaturated with branded promotional pranks, but it&#8217;s 2016 and we all have personal brandsMashable&#8216;s wannabe pop star Jake Fertig thought there was no better way to promote his own brand than by throwing the ultimate April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/01\/i-told-everyone-i-was-dead-to-make-my-folk-band-famous\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1709,1710,1351,736,735],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-april-fools","tag-april-fools-day","tag-humor","tag-videos","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}