{"id":52,"date":"2004-11-13T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=52"},"modified":"2004-11-13T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T02:18:00","slug":"spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Spare the Rod and Spoil the Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I found several <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4008853.stm\">Rod Stewart<\/a> tapes in the two-buck bin at the local Overpriced Book and Music Store. After reading about his company&#8217;s ethical confusion, it&#8217;s hard to feel sorry for the guy if he&#8217;s declining. <\/p>\n<p>His lawyer thinks it&#8217;s unfair that he doesn&#8217;t get paid if he doesn&#8217;t do the job he&#8217;s being paid for. I think these folks ought to try working for a living, and discover how the Real World works. <\/p>\n<p>If they appeal, and win, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to become a singer. I&#8217;m not going on tour, either. Can I have two million dollars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I found several Rod Stewart tapes in the two-buck bin at the local Overpriced Book and Music Store. After reading about his company&#8217;s ethical confusion, it&#8217;s hard to feel sorry for the guy if he&#8217;s declining. His lawyer thinks it&#8217;s unfair that he doesn&#8217;t get paid if he doesn&#8217;t do the job he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}