{"id":542,"date":"2005-12-12T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2005-12-12T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T02:40:09","slug":"rockets-red-glarefo-shizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Rockets red glare&#8230;fo shizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite it&#8217;s usual high degree of difficulty on the readability scale, I can give <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=jackson\/051206\">Scoop Jackson<\/a> a bit of a pass on the whole &#8220;expressing yourself through the anthem&#8221; bit. <\/p>\n<p>But, without seeing the video, it sounds like R. Kelly went a little bit overboard, swam a few miles out, got on a different boat, and went overboard again. Regardless, I&#8217;ll let Scoop have his point. The Whitney Houston comparison doesn&#8217;t float, though. She belted out a hell of a rendition, but it was all singing. No dancing, no &#8220;wave your hands in the air&#8221;, just singing.<\/p>\n<p>The big question I have, though, by listing note-by-note every notable African-American that has seemingly ever sang the national anthem at a sporting event, didn&#8217;t Scoop forget Carl Lewis? <\/p>\n<p>Or doesn&#8217;t that one count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite it&#8217;s usual high degree of difficulty on the readability scale, I can give Scoop Jackson a bit of a pass on the whole &#8220;expressing yourself through the anthem&#8221; bit. But, without seeing the video, it sounds like R. Kelly went a little bit overboard, swam a few miles out, got on a different boat, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockets red glare&#8230;fo shizzle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}