{"id":369,"date":"2006-09-12T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2006-09-12T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T15:17:33","slug":"like-he-said-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Like He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Lionel Ritchie as quoted today in <em>The New York Times<\/em>. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/12\/arts\/music\/12lion.html\"><strong>Lionel Richie Gets His Groove Back<\/strong><\/a>, September 12, 2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lionel who? &#8230; Oh, him. Where&#8217;s he been all these years?\u00c2\u00a0 These are not embittered words from a has-been. Having sold 100 million albums worldwide, and with five Grammys an Oscar and a Golden Globe to his name, he&#8217;s been living the life in his 30-room mansion in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Lionel Ritchie as quoted today in The New York Times. (Lionel Richie Gets His Groove Back, September 12, 2006) Lionel who? &#8230; Oh, him. Where&#8217;s he been all these years?\u00c2\u00a0 These are not embittered words &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like He Said&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}