{"id":2891,"date":"2010-08-06T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-06T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T08:38:23","slug":"did-somebody-speak-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/did-somebody-speak-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Did somebody speak too soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.eurweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wyclef-jean.jpg\" alt=\"wyclef\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, Townsmen were invited to reflect on the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will somebody please explain how and why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/what-i-gotta-do-to-get-wyclef-jean-s-job\" target=_blank>washed-up rapper Wyclef Jean<\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I have to say that I hadn&#8217;t given Wyclef Jean much thought up until then. Or after.<\/p>\n<p>Until today, when this headline leapt at me from the pages of the <em>Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><big><strong>Wyclef Jean confirms he will run for Haiti president<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born rap star who became one of the world&#8217;s most popular hip-hop artists, has told the Guardian that he will run for president of Haiti in the country&#8217;s November elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody much wiser than me observed that greatest hits albums are like political careers: each tends to end in failure.<\/p>\n<p>But clearly the guy has pull. Or thinks he does. Have any former &#8211; or practicing &#8211; musicians ever had a successful career in politics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Townsmen were invited to reflect on the following: Will somebody please 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. And I have to say that I hadn&#8217;t given Wyclef <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/did-somebody-speak-too-soon\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891"}],"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\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}