{"id":847,"date":"2007-02-09T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2007-02-09T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:14:38","slug":"anna_nicole_smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/09\/anna_nicole_smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Nicole Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/02\/08\/anna.nicole.collapses\/index.html\">Anna Nicole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess, I wasn&#8217;t a fan. I thought she was a bimbo, actually, a grotesque and idiotic caricature of feminity, and an example of everything that&#8217;s wrong with the American worship of fame for fame&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I find that I actually feel bad about her sudden death. She always seemed like such a helpless creature, and she has had a heavy ration of crap handed to her recently: the death of her 20-year-old son, the paternity battle over her infant <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">son<\/span> daughter, the on-going inheritance battle, and a newly minted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2007\/02\/06\/ap3399872.html\">class-action suit<\/a> that named her, specifically, as a co-defendant. I have a hunch we&#8217;re going to find out she died of an overdose, either accidental or deliberate. I find it very easy to imagine her washing down pills with a glass of vodka while blubbering that we wouldn&#8217;t have Anna Nicole to kick around anymore. That&#8217;s a terribly sad ending for any human being, even one whose only apparent goal in life was to &#8220;be famous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess she managed that, though, didn&#8217;t she? She&#8217;ll now be enshrined alongside all those other starlets who met untimely and pathetic ends. Maybe that&#8217;s what she&#8217;s really wanted all the way along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Anna Nicole. I must confess, I wasn&#8217;t a fan. I thought she was a bimbo, actually, a grotesque and idiotic caricature of feminity, and an example of everything that&#8217;s wrong with the American worship of fame for fame&#8217;s sake. Nevertheless, I find that I actually feel bad about her sudden death. She always seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}