{"id":197,"date":"2003-11-22T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T02:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/get_a_life\/"},"modified":"2003-11-22T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T02:47:58","slug":"get_a_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/get_a_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Get A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s some degree of irony in me using the above heading as I blog on Saturday night. But there’s something really imbalanced about this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Paris, about 60 fans gathered on the Champs Elysees and marched through crowds of shoppers to the Arc de Triomphe. They held candles and banners with slogans of support and sang “We Are the World,” the 1985 African famine relief anthem written by Jackson and Lionel Richie.
\n“It’s really hard for us,” said Pascale Hatot, a 37-year-old fan from the suburbs of Paris. “I haven’t been able to sleep or eat for three days.”
\nSupporters in Rome gathered at the foot of the Spanish Steps just after darkness fell. They held candles and a sign in Italian that read: “Michael: Accused but not guilty!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all the stuff going on in the world today, I’m not sure why anyone feels a particular need to attend a rally for a has-been entertainer under criminal suspicion. But not being able to sleep or eat for three days over this? That’s bizarre. I don’t see how anyone who’s followed Jackson over the past decade could really be surprised by these charges. And for one to so distraught by Jackson’s arrest so that it interferes with his or her bodily routines seems like a symptom of a disturbed person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s some degree of irony in me using the above heading as I blog on Saturday night. But there’s something really imbalanced about this: In Paris, about 60 fans gathered on the Champs Elysees and marched through crowds of shoppers to the Arc de Triomphe. They held candles and banners with slogans of support and […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}