{"id":4174,"date":"2024-02-23T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2024-02-23T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:28:21","slug":"streaker-hits-the-academy-awards-david-nivens-response-is-comedy-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=4174","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Streaker\u2019 Hits the Academy Awards \u2013 David Niven\u2019s Response is Comedy Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\">I wonder where some fads come from. I mean, who was it that said, \u201cHey, I know\u2013let\u2019s take off all of our clothes and run across the football field during the middle of a game!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Streaking has actually been around for centuries, according to Wikipedia. A man was arrested in 1799 in London after accepting a bet to run through town naked. By February 1974, newspapers and magazines were beginning to write about it as a fad, mostly on college campuses. There was even a #1 song, \u201cThe Streak,\u201d by Ray Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, 1974, right before The Sting was announced as Best Picture, a naked man (later identified as Robert Opel) streaked across the stage behind David Niven while flashing a peace sign with his fingers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=4175\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4079 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Readmore-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta hide-entry-meta hide-posted-on hide-posted-by\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder where some fads come from. I mean, who was it that said, \u201cHey, I know\u2013let\u2019s take off all of our clothes and run across the football field during the middle of a game!\u201d Streaking has actually been around for centuries, according to Wikipedia. A man was arrested in 1799 in London after accepting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=4174\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u2018Streaker\u2019 Hits the Academy Awards \u2013 David Niven\u2019s Response is Comedy Classic&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}