{"id":459,"date":"2009-04-22T00:36:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T07:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/today_show_fall_guy_-_kerry_sk\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T00:36:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T07:36:41","slug":"today_show_fall_guy_-_kerry_sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/today_show_fall_guy_-_kerry_sk.html","title":{"rendered":"Today Show fall guy &#8211; Kerry Skarbakka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If a good artist gets a big platform solely because of his content, he&#8217;s still a good artist. What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Artists\/Pages\/Kerry_Skarbakka.html\">Kerry Skarbakka<\/a> thinks of as an idea, the Today Show presents as a gimmick, and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can pull all the stops out<br \/>\nTill they call the cops out<br \/>\nGrind your behind till you&#8217;re bent.<br \/>\nBut you gotta get a gimmick<br \/>\nIf you wanna get a hand.<br \/>\nYou can sacrifice your sacharo<br \/>\nWorking in the back row.<br \/>\nBump in a dump till you&#8217;re dead.<br \/>\nKid you gotta have a gimmick<br \/>\nIf you wanna get ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"description\">Stephen Sondheim, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA\"><i>Gypsy<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/30323454#30323454\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 5px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a good artist gets a big platform solely because of his content, he&#8217;s still a good artist. What Kerry Skarbakka thinks of as an idea, the Today Show presents as a gimmick, and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that. You can pull all the stops out Till they call the cops out Grind your behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}