{"id":3862,"date":"2009-07-10T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/10\/mj-fame-writing-and-more\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:26:18","slug":"mj-fame-writing-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/10\/mj-fame-writing-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ, Fame, Writing, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re desperate for something to fill your Friday afternoon, and not the comment-leaving sort, you could do a lot worse than spending an hour and a half (give or take) with Chuck Klosternman and Bill Simmons in their <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espnradio\/player?id=4295728\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espnradio\/player?id=4295745\">part<\/a> ESPN podcast. It&#8217;s nominally about sports, but they spend a good bit of time talking about Michael Jackson (in a sensible way, not a vapid-entertainment-reporter way), the effects of fame, the effect of writing for an audience, and a bunch of other interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a week old, but I only got around to it yesterday. It&#8217;s worth a listen, though. It also provided the information that Klosterman has a new book coming out in October, which gives me something to look forward to this fall (besides football season)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Klosterman is another extremely dangerous writer for me&#8211; I love his stuff, but after reading a bunch of his essays, I have to be very careful writing for the blog, or I end up doing second-rate Chuck Klosterman posts&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re desperate for something to fill your Friday afternoon, and not the comment-leaving sort, you could do a lot worse than spending an hour and a half (give or take) with Chuck Klosternman and Bill Simmons in their two part ESPN podcast. It&#8217;s nominally about sports, but they spend a good bit of time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/10\/mj-fame-writing-and-more\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MJ, Fame, Writing, and More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,31,35,15,37,43,27,56,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-books","category-football","category-movies","category-music","category-pop_culture","category-soccer","category-sports","category-technology","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}