{"id":960,"date":"2009-06-26T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-06-26T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T18:56:33","slug":"um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Um…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I alone in thinking that Michael Jackson’s death doesn’t merit all of the media attention it’s getting?<\/p>\n

This morning all of the top-10 stories on CNN were about his death. This seems like overkill.<\/p>\n

Why is our culture so obsessed with celebrities? Thousands of people die every day, yet somehow celebrity deaths are always big, front-page news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I alone in thinking that Michael Jackson’s death doesn’t merit all of the media attention it’s getting? This morning all of the top-10 stories on CNN were about his death. This seems like overkill. Why is our culture so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}