Okay, well, no, that’s not quite it. But it’s close! I swear!<\/p>\n
While it’s probably not meant<\/em> to be funny, when I read the AP<\/acronym> story “Spears’ New Album Contains Cursing”, I was giggling most of the way through.<\/p>\n \n Britney Spears’ third studio album comes out next month, and it contains a few curse words that she knows some parents may not want their children to hear. “When I say ‘hell’ and ‘damn,’ I say it out of frustration in my songs. It’s not, like, a normal term of endearment that I use all the time.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well that’s<\/em> good to know — because ‘hell’ and ‘damn’ sure are terms of endearment that I use on a daily basis, but it would be a sure sign of the apocalypse (or, at the very least, the world going to h-e-double-hockey-sticks in a handbasket) if Miss Spears, that paragon of virtue and teenage innocence, were to start slinging them around like beads at a Mardi Gras parade!<\/p>\n Um…or something like that.<\/p>\n (My second choice for a headline: Britney Spears contracts Tourette’s Syndrome in recording studio; FBI<\/acronym>, RIAA<\/acronym>, and PTA<\/acronym> launching investigation targeting bin Laden<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I say ‘hell’ and ‘damn,’ I say it out of frustration in my songs. It’s not, like, a normal term of endearment that I use all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[2069,6],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-britney-spears","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}