{"id":2656,"date":"2009-07-08T03:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2009-07-08T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:38:02","slug":"long-live-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/long-live-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got finished watching the Michael Jackson Memorial Special and I must say that it was like nothing I had ever seen.\u00a0 But I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised seeing as how Michael Jackson wasn&#8217;t like anybody else.\u00a0 While they showed all the footage and pictures of him, I felt a tingle run down my spine.\u00a0 I was witnessing bits and pieces of the life of somebody very important.\u00a0 Not just somebody I tried to imitate dancing or made fun of for the sake of making fun of somebody.\u00a0 He was a genuinely special person who, after watching the footage of him, had a pure, hard-working heart.\u00a0 I feel remorseful for making fun of somebody who only had a positive impact on the lives of myself and countless others.\u00a0 Think Al Sharpton said it best when talking to MJ&#8217;s children, &#8220;There was nothing strange about your daddy, it was strange what your daddy had to deal with.&#8221;\u00a0 Only now after his passing can I now appreciate what he went through to do what he loved.\u00a0 I feel like a Judas who has sold Michael out for a cheap laugh here and there when it was me, 3 summers ago who danced almost everyday to his hits and dedicated that summer as the summer of MJ.<\/p>\n<p>So I say to MJ, where ever you are, THANK YOU!!!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing yourself with us and bringing so much happiness to the world.\u00a0 Heeee!\u00a0 Heeee!<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object id=\"kaltura_player\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"374\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"kaltura_player\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_2365\/uiconf_id\/1000697\/entry_id\/6wpevnblyg\" \/><embed id=\"kaltura_player\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"550\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_2365\/uiconf_id\/1000697\/entry_id\/6wpevnblyg\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"kaltura_player\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got finished watching the Michael Jackson Memorial Special and I must say that it was like nothing I had ever seen.\u00a0 But I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised seeing as how Michael Jackson wasn&#8217;t like anybody else.\u00a0 While they showed all the footage and pictures of him, I felt a tingle run down my spine.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,335,194],"tags":[376,443,441,444,442],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-benji","category-random-thoughts","category-videos","tag-life","tag-memorial","tag-michael-jackson","tag-moonwalk","tag-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocbenji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}