{"id":233,"date":"2005-03-26T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:41:00","slug":"ill-get-booed-at-the-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/26\/ill-get-booed-at-the-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll get Booed at the Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went out dancing last night and had a revelation. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not exactly what you would call a &#8220;hip-hop&#8221; guy to begin with, but I do enjoy the occassional bit of lyrical poetry. However, I suddenly realized that most of these songs are nothing more than instructions:<\/p>\n<p>Stand up&#8230;<br \/>Throw your hands in the air&#8230;<br \/>Drop it like it&#8217;s hot&#8230;<br \/>Lean back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, is it me or is rap music just square dancing for the urban crowd?<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"hgmiller\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"I%27ll%20get%20Booed%20at%20the%20Apollo\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went out dancing last night and had a revelation. Now, I&#8217;m not exactly what you would call a &#8220;hip-hop&#8221; guy to begin with, but I do enjoy the occassional bit of lyrical poetry. However, I suddenly realized that most of these songs are nothing more than instructions: Stand up&#8230;Throw your hands in the air&#8230;Drop it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"hgmiller\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"I%27ll%20get%20Booed%20at%20the%20Apollo\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}