{"id":146,"date":"2001-08-31T22:32:50","date_gmt":"2001-09-01T05:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2001-08-31T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2001-09-01T05:32:50","slug":"ok-i-listened-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/ok-i-listened-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":"ok, I listened to the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, I listened to the michael jackson song another few times and I got over my intial &#8220;it&#8217;s michael jackson! aaah!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I now have a clearer head and I&#8217;m realizing that that song is not a michael jackson song at all. where did michael go? since when did the King of Pop deign to such commonplace radio drivel? ok, so he spent $30 million on the new album, came out with about 50 songs, decided on 16 tracks.. and *this* was the single they release? The more I think about it, the more I think his last album, Dangerous, was actually quite good but overlooked. those songs actually endure, and sound like michael, in all his pioneering, &#8220;I am michael jackson&#8221; glory. and maybe he&#8217;s unwilling to go so far out on the line with his new stuff for fear of being laughed away again, but if he doesn&#8217;t take that risk, then he can&#8217;t ever regain the title, &#8220;King of Pop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s music is creative, enduring, and he walks a path only he, as Michael Jackson, can walk. so why is he content to be like everyone else? he doesn&#8217;t have to settle for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, I listened to the michael jackson song another few times and I got over my intial &#8220;it&#8217;s michael jackson! aaah!!&#8221; I now have a clearer head and I&#8217;m realizing that that song is not a michael jackson song at all. where did michael go? since when did the King of Pop deign to such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/ok-i-listened-to-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ok, I listened to the&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}