{"id":754,"date":"2003-02-09T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2003-02-09T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-09T15:06:00","slug":"mj-its-no-longer-about-the-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"MJ &#8211; It&#8217;s No Longer About the Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/020903jackson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 190px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/020903jackson.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Seems                        that everyone is talking or writing about <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">MICHAEL JACKSON<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">                       Everyone has an opinion of him. Some say he&#8217;s a child molester,                        while others feel that he&#8217;s totally innocent. Not just innocent                        of the molesting charge, but child-like innocent&#8230; trapped                        in a world that he&#8217;s created for himself. I was a fan of                        <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">MICHAEL JACKSON<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> since his days with the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Jackson                        5<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. I was [and continue to be] in awe of his talent.                        When he dances, you can&#8217;t help but become mesmerized by                        his moves &#8212; he becomes the music. When he sings, you find                        yourself pulled in. And when he performs it&#8217;s magical.]                        I saw <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">MJ<\/b> live on the <b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Victory<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> tour in Jacksonville                        [how appropriate, huh?]. I&#8217;ve never seen such a mixed crowd                        so into anything. Young, old, men, women, and kids of all                        races. It was a memorable, enjoyable evening.<\/span>                     <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">That was the <b>MJ<\/b> of old&#8230; before <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/mjdec1.html\" target=\"_blank\">the                        allegations<\/a> and out of court settlement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                     <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">&#8230; but now the talk isn&#8217;t about his dancing, or his music                        or his talent&#8230; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that everyone is talking or writing about MICHAEL JACKSON&#8230; Everyone has an opinion of him. Some say he&#8217;s a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}