{"id":501,"date":"2005-02-17T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/02\/wake_me_up_unprecedented_poten\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T14:45:56","slug":"wake_me_up_unprecedented_poten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/02\/wake_me_up_unprecedented_poten\/","title":{"rendered":"WAKE ME UP: unprecedented potential increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?rank=&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fgossip%2F39872.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Eat<\/A> your heart out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powellsbooks.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=2-0375758305-2\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Flanagan<\/A>.<BR><BR><br \/>\nALWAYS GOOD FOR A QUOTE: George Michael, in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/17\/arts\/17arts.html?pagewanted=2\" target=\"_blank\">NYTimes<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Michael says pop music is dead. Speaking yesterday at the Berlin International Film Festival, where he presented his autobiographical film &#8220;George Michael: A Different Story,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I think my own genre is dead,&#8221; The Associated Press reported. Mr. Michael, 41, said he wanted to &#8220;try to move my career into a different form. I don&#8217;t know what that&#8217;s going to be yet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <BR><br \/>\nToo bad Georgie had to compete with today&#8217;s Greenspan quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fed chief acknowledged, to a question from New York Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democratic foe of carving private accounts from Social Security, that the accounts wouldn&#8217;t address Social Security&#8217;s long-term financial woes. &#8220;In and of itself,&#8221; he said, &#8220;it surely doesn&#8217;t alleviate the current problem.&#8221; That would require tax increases and benefit reductions, he said, though he didn&#8217;t endorse any particular proposals&#8230; (from <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,SB110860532475557343-IJjfoNjlad4n5yra36Hb6yEm4,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/A>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat your heart out, Bill Flanagan. ALWAYS GOOD FOR A QUOTE: George Michael, in today&#8217;s NYTimes: George Michael says pop music is dead. Speaking yesterday at the Berlin International Film Festival, where he presented his autobiographical film &#8220;George Michael: A Different Story,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I think my own genre is dead,&#8221; The Associated Press reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}