{"id":2346,"date":"2009-06-25T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2009-06-25T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:18:08","slug":"even_rock_stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"Even Rock Stars Have To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add regarding the news of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=105932403\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s death<\/a>. I stopped listening to him when I was 16 or 17, but his songs dominated the charts when I first started paying attention to pop music as a kid. I remember lying in a hospital room in 1984 and listening to <i>Thriller<\/i>. I remember grade school classmates reciting the lyrics to &#8220;P.Y.T.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is shaping up to be a really weird week in current events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add regarding the news of Michael Jackson&#8217;s death. I stopped listening to him when I was 16 or 17, but his songs dominated the charts when I first started paying attention to pop music as a kid. I remember lying in a hospital room in 1984 and listening to Thriller. <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2346' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}