{"id":778,"date":"2002-10-30T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/31\/its-tricky\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:08","slug":"its-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/30\/its-tricky\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s tricky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this just sucks \u2014 Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1458435\/20021030\/run_dmc.jhtml?headlines=true\" title=\"Jam Master Jay, Run-DMC DJ, Killed in Shooting\">shot and killed<\/a> in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>While most of my music listening is more on the side of goth, industrial, and electronic, there&#8217;s a lot of &#8216;old-school&#8217; rap in my collection, and Run-DMC were some of the true pioneers of the field. They also stayed in the game for fun, making a lot of good, upbeat, fun songs, without stooping to the guns and violence of the &#8216;gangsta rap&#8217; that has become so popular of late. Truly sad to see something like this happen.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/21237\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MeFi<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was shot and killed in the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}