{"id":786,"date":"2009-06-27T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T02:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/enough-already\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T02:15:45","slug":"enough-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/enough-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Already"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days later and we’re still be bombarded by stories about Michael Jackson.  I grew up listening to the Jackson 5, loved Off the Wall and Thriller, but enough already.  <\/p>\n

Jackson was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, and was still one when he did the Thriller video, which is why he prefaced it with the disclaimer:  <\/p>\n

“Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the  occult.”<\/p>\n

The sixteenth time I saw excerpts from the video it occurred to me that he’d still be alive today if instead of becoming a Jehovah’s Witness Zombie he had become a Jehovah’s Witness Vampire<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

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Two days later and we’re still be bombarded by stories about Michael Jackson.  I grew up listening to the Jackson 5, loved Off the Wall and Thriller, but enough already.  Jackson was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, and was still one when he did the Thriller video, which is why he prefaced it with the disclaimer:  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}