{"id":70,"date":"2007-02-12T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:37:56","slug":"how-bout-them-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"How Bout Them Chicks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally don&#8217;t have much to say about the entertainment world, but I have to cheer for the Dixie Chicks and their <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2007\/02\/13\/arts\/13gram.jpg\" Target=\"Offsite\">Grammy Awards<\/a>.   It&#8217;s somewhat ironic that I first heard the news from  Clear Channel&#8217;s Republican asshole DJs griping about it.  Normally the Clear Channel team&#8217;s Limbaugh-like drivel makes me want to shoot my radio, but this morning their venom was pure sweetness to me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I must admit I&#8217;m still not a big fan of the Chicks&#8217; earlier music, although I admire the spunk behind &#8220;Not Ready to Make Nice&#8221;.  I just have a profound admiration for their independent spirit, as Natalie expresses so well in her  <a href=\"\/miscpix\/NatalieACLU2.jpg\" Target=\"Offsite\">ACLU ad<\/a>.  And I really think they need to hire that photographer for their own publicity shots.  I&#8217;ve never seen any other picture of her that looks so hot.  Those eyes just penetrate my soul and make me want to say &#8220;Hurt me and make me beg for more.&#8221;  But only because I admire her independence of spirit, of course.<\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s just one thing I regret about their award.  I really wish she had been less gracious and given in to what must have been a strong temptation to stick it to some of her detractors.  &#8220;Hey, Toby, how do you like me now?&#8221; would have been a perfect line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally don&#8217;t have much to say about the entertainment world, but I have to cheer for the Dixie Chicks and their Grammy Awards. It&#8217;s somewhat ironic that I first heard the news from Clear Channel&#8217;s Republican asshole DJs griping about it. Normally the Clear Channel team&#8217;s Limbaugh-like drivel makes me want to shoot my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=70\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Bout Them Chicks?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-18","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}