{"id":239,"date":"2003-12-02T01:12:46","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/stripping_sells_music\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T01:12:46","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T06:12:46","slug":"stripping_sells_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/stripping_sells_music\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripping Sells Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20031126\/music_nm\/music_sales_dc_6\">Who would have thought<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pop princess Britney Spears, aided by a publicity blitzkrieg, steamrollered to number one on the music charts on Wednesday, while a new album by scandal-plagued Michael Jackson failed to make the Top 10, the Nielsen Soundscan sales tracking service said.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nTo promote the album, the 21-year-old Spears has seemed omnipresent recently, posing scantily clad for magazine covers, appearing in several television interviews and causing a major stir by kissing Madonna during the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2003552867,00.html\">Jack  Nicholson has taken notice of Britney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AGEING playboy Jack Nicholson wants to bed Britney Spears \ufffd but says he is \ufffdtoo old\ufffd for sex.<br \/>\nThe 66-year-old actor believes a romp with the singer, 22 today, would be &#8220;life-altering.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/stripping_sells_music\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Stripping Sells Music\"><p>Who would have thought? Pop princess Britney Spears, aided by a publicity blitzkrieg, steamrollered to number one on the music charts on Wednesday, while a new album by scandal-plagued Michael Jackson failed to make the Top 10, the Nielsen Soundscan sales tracking service said. . . . To promote the album, the 21-year-old Spears has [&hellip;]<\/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-239","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\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}