{"id":128,"date":"2011-12-08T01:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-10-27T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T15:25:04","slug":"calling-out-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/rants\/calling-out-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Out Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/captainsdead.com\/paul-stanley-people-let-me-get-this-off-my-chest.html\">Paul Stanley<\/a>: people, let me get this off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>With the ridiculous game of hype and backlash escalated even further with the end-of-year Top 10 lists, some have been using this opportunity to slag off my old pal Leslie Feist.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you think her music is boring, or if it&#8217;s too &#8220;soft&#8221; for your musical machismo, that&#8217;s fine &#8211; a matter of personal taste.<\/p>\n<p>But to people insinuating or saying outright that she&#8217;s some kind of manufactured pop star, I must say with respect: you don&#8217;t know shit.<\/p>\n<p>She has worked really hard to get where she is and she started at ZERO &#8211; working her ass off, making huge sacrifices, playing gigs in front of nobody for no money and eating air sandwiches for YEARS &#8211; and I know this for a fact because I did a bunch of those gigs with her.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a thought: next time you&#8217;re about to idly criticize someone, try walking a mile in their shoes &#8211; or better yet, eat a big bowl of STFU.<\/p>\n<p>REAL TALK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote Paul Stanley: people, let me get this off my chest. With the ridiculous game of hype and backlash escalated even further with the end-of-year Top 10 lists, some have been using this opportunity to slag off my old pal Leslie Feist. Now, if you think her music is boring, or if it&#8217;s too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/rants\/calling-out-haters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calling Out Haters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[46,69,68],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-feist","tag-haters","tag-real-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}