{"id":17,"date":"2009-06-30T00:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:25:23","slug":"ray-charles-genius-mj-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/ray-charles-genius-mj-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Charles = Genius. Michael Jackson \u2260 Genius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/ray_charles_genius.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Charles - Genius\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Against a backdrop of TV news\/infotainment&#8217;s wall-to-wall, undeservedly reverential adoration for <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>, I found myself tasked with considering the meaning of the word <em>genius<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I came up with: a review of the new single-disc compilation <a title=\"Bill Kopp reviews Genius: the Ultimate Ray Charles Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/blast_from_the_past\/ray_charles_genius.shtml\"><em>Genius: The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against a backdrop of TV news\/infotainment&#8217;s wall-to-wall, undeservedly reverential adoration for Michael Jackson, I found myself tasked with considering the meaning of the word genius. Here&#8217;s what I came up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}