{"id":29291,"date":"2024-04-24T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=29291"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:29:06","slug":"do-you-know-what-today-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/do-you-know-what-today-is-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What Today Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s New Kids On The Block Day!<\/p>\n<p>A day that started when the band released the song \u201cHanging Tough\u201d in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>That same year the governor of Massachusetts declared today, April 24th, as \u2018New Kids on the Block Day\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A brand new holiday that Blockheads around Boston and around the world have been celebrating ever since.\u00a0\u00a0Celebrating Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, and Jordan Knight.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 35th anniversary of that special day, which the band and it\u2019s fans have turned into an annual celebration of all things New Kids. This year, as a surprise for Blockheads, the group has just released the new song, \u201cA Love Like This,\u201d off their new record \u201cStill Kids\u201d that comes out May 17.\u00a0 According to Joey McIntyre &#8211; the track promises to \u201cbring all the feels,\u201d and says the\u00a0 upcoming album \u201cStill Kids\u201d will offer a \u201cgood balance\u201d of throwback vibes and fresh sounds. The group is excited to be hitting the road for the New Kids on the Block \u201cmagic summer 2024 tour\u201d with special guests Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff as well as other surprises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oz2SG2TrCbI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s New Kids On The Block Day! A day that started when the band released the song \u201cHanging Tough\u201d in 1989. That same year the governor of Massachusetts declared today, April 24th, as \u2018New Kids on the Block Day\u2019. A brand new holiday that Blockheads around Boston and around the world have been celebrating ever","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[307,1451],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-new-kids-on-the-block","tag-nkotb"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 21:16:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/do-you-know-what-today-is-2\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29294,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions\/29294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}