{"id":2001,"date":"2009-07-08T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2009-07-08T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:43:01","slug":"michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When <em>Gore Vidal<\/em> was told about the <em>death of Truman Capote<\/em>, in 1984, he  responded: &#8220;<em>A wise career move<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I think the same is true in this case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His musical talent and showmanship were incomparable but his life was a series of tragic decisions poorly executed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His death will allow his legend to grow without all of the ugly realities.\u00a0<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;A wise career move.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gore Vidal was told about the death of Truman Capote, in 1984, he responded: &#8220;A wise career move.&#8221; I think the same is true in this case. His musical talent and showmanship were incomparable but his life was a series of tragic decisions poorly executed. His death will allow his legend to grow without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}