{"id":316,"date":"2005-03-22T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=316"},"modified":"2005-03-22T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2005-03-22T12:49:17","slug":"fan-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Fan hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Michael Jackson is playing sick to gain sympathy. Sadly, it seems to be working:<\/p>\n

On Monday, defense lawyer Tom Mesereau consulted in chambers with Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville. They were joined by a doctor wearing scrubs, who had come with Jackson from the nearby Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital.
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The nearly 45-minute delay in the proceedings was not explained to jurors in open court. <\/p>\n

As Jackson waited for his lawyers to emerge from the judge’s chambers, he left court dabbing at his nose with a tissue. Several fans in the courtroom broke into tears at his apparent pain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, boo hoo. Guilty or not, childlike or not, and white or not, Jackson is 47 years old and needs to grow a spine, and so do his fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot understand why people are still fanatically obsessed with Michael Jackson<\/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-316","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\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}