{"id":83,"date":"2004-12-12T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:16:58","slug":"swings-and-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/swings-and-roundabouts.html","title":{"rendered":"Swings and Roundabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">On the one hand, Delta Goodrem is <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4459,11660164%255E10431%255E%255Enbv,00.html\">leaving Australia<\/a> to live in the U.S., from where hopefully she can devote less time to perpetually saturating every Australian media outlet* while simultaneously bleating about how the media shd respect her privacy.  Having now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/columnists\/2004\/12\/08-0003.print.html\">stiffed in the U.K.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinstartshere.com\/?q=node\/26\">exhausted the goodwill of her compatriots<\/a>, she thinks she can still evade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathurstafterdark.com\/cgi-bin\/GM\/archives\/00000127.shtml\">the Pepsi Curse<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">On the other hand, Leo Sayer is still threatening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/Music\/Exit-Leo-Im-not-uncool\/2004\/11\/07\/1099781236168.html\">move to Australia<\/a> next year to relaunch his music career.  For those who haven&#8217;t heard this choice quote:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote><p>In Australia they still want heroes. They are looking to me to teach their kids knowledge and wisdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Still, better him than Delta, I guess.  And you have to admit &#8220;You Make Me Feel Like Dancing&#8221; is pretty catchy.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">* Including this one, dammit.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, Delta Goodrem is leaving Australia to live in the U.S., from where hopefully she can devote less time to perpetually saturating every Australian media outlet* while simultaneously bleating about how the media shd respect her privacy. Having now stiffed in the U.K. and exhausted the goodwill of her compatriots, she thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}