{"id":2466,"date":"2009-12-10T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:16:39","slug":"what-i-gotta-do-to-get-wyclef-jean-s-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-i-gotta-do-to-get-wyclef-jean-s-job\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Gotta Do to Get Wyclef Jean&#8217;s Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/wyclefjean.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"402\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I read this in today&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em> account of Obama&#8217;s Nobel peace prize speech and just about did a spit-take:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Speaking before an audience of 1,000 that included Norway&#8217;s royal family and top government officials, as well as entertainment icons Will Smith and Wyclef Jean&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will somebody <em>please<\/em> explain how and why washed-up rapper Wyclef Jean manages to show up at gigs like this?  I have been flummoxed by his red carpet magnetism for years now.  I just don&#8217;t get it.  I mean, I understand how he could hoodwink today&#8217;s aging rock star set into thinking he&#8217;s got hip-hop street cred or something, that he&#8217;s the 21st-century version of <strong>KRS-One<\/strong>.  So I understand why he shows up at things like <strong>U2<\/strong> concerts, or benefits hosted by <strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong> and <strong>Bonnie Raitt<\/strong>.  But what the fuck is he doing at the Nobel peace prize awards?  Or at the UN?  Or at &#8212; hell, I don&#8217;t know, the Hague or the International Space Station, or wherever they&#8217;ll invite him next?  And why does he get invited to these things in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>I want answers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in today&#8217;s Washington Post account of Obama&#8217;s Nobel peace prize speech and just about did a spit-take: &#8230; Speaking before an audience of 1,000 that included Norway&#8217;s royal family and top government officials, as well as entertainment icons Will Smith and Wyclef Jean&#8230; Will somebody please explain how and why washed-up rapper <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-i-gotta-do-to-get-wyclef-jean-s-job\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}