{"id":1518,"date":"2009-06-26T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2009-06-26T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:34:18","slug":"teee-heechamong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/teee-heechamong\/","title":{"rendered":"Teee Hee…chamong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK it’s hard to turn on the TV or listen to the radio these past couple days and not have heard about Michael Jackson. As much as it has annoyed me a little how they’re making so much fuss about it now, when everyone’s been making MJ jokes for years, it’s certainly very interesting witnessing this kind of fervor.<\/p>\n

When my wife sat down with me that afternoon we found out, she asked “Why are they making such a big deal about it?”\u00a0 (She’s never really been a big fan of pop culture).\u00a0 I admit I felt a little bit of defensiveness on behalf of these MJ fans out there who we saw crying on boob tube.<\/p>\n

I told her, “Love him or hate him, he’s a HUGE part of music even despite all the crap that’s been surrounding him this past decade”\u00a0 I think he deserves his time to be recognized…even if it comes after he’s gone.<\/p>\n

So…since I posted a rememberance for Joey Ramone and James Brown when they past — Here’s to you Michael.\u00a0 “Comon…till the pong pong, don’t stop till you get enough.\u00a0 Cheehee Chamong”\u00a0 (I could never figure out what he was saying in that song)<\/p>\n

(Image via TheDieline.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK it’s hard to turn on the TV or listen to the radio these past couple days and not have heard about Michael Jackson. As much as it has annoyed me a little how they’re making so much fuss about it now, when everyone’s been making MJ jokes for years, it’s certainly very interesting witnessing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}