{"id":214,"date":"2004-12-19T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T05:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=214"},"modified":"2004-12-19T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T06:01:11","slug":"how-creepy-people-capitalize-on-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"How Creepy People Capitalize on Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This link has made the blog rounds quite a bit, not because of the artist&#8217;s talent or the tune&#8217;s poignancy, but because of three factors:<\/p>\n<p>1. The obviously horrid LACK of talent, <em>and how.<\/em> (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lackoftalent.org\">Mike<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2. The idea that such a terrible singer\/songwriter would be so crass as to take a tragedy for which he has absolutely NO connection to and use it in an obvious and pathetic attempt to (unsuccessfully) try and launch his career.  <em>And how<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Despite trying very hard to create a heartwarming tune, this guy is <strong>just plain creepy<\/strong>.  <em>And how<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare  to make your eardrums bleed, folks.  Here it is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/images\/sections\/rememberinglaci.html\">&#8220;Remembering Laci&#8221; by John Strand<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>(Note: The Modesto Bee has decided that only those people who use Internet Explorer are to be subjected to this horror, so be aware that IE is required to follow this link.  Sorry.)<\/p>\n<p>Ph33r this creepy cretin&#8217;s backup tracks, and revel in his oh-so-cheesy Casio music.<\/p>\n<p>PH33R AND REVEL, DAMN YOU!!<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of other no-talents who submitted works of their own, and those fine auditory nuggets are lumped into a drop-down playlist  with this guy, but none seem to match the utter&#8230; train wreck?  That is John Strand.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is not a joke.  This was evidently done in all seriousness.    What caused these people, especially Mr. Strand, to think they had actual musical sense?  What compelled them to apply this self-professed talent to the Laci Peterson tragedy?<\/p>\n<p>Why, God, why?!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to take a pair of scissors and gouge my eardrums out with them now.<\/p>\n<p>::whisper:: <em>&#8220;We Love You.&#8221;<\/em>  ::shudder::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to a very creepy Laci Peterson song&#8230; no, really&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}