{"id":1599,"date":"2016-01-11T04:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2016-01-11T04:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:26:20","slug":"sean-and-madonna-together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/01\/11\/sean-and-madonna-together-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean and Madonna &#8211; Together Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That <strong>Sean Penn <\/strong>is smarter than he looks &#8211; well, he&#8217;d have to be.\u00a0 He scheduled his 5th Annual Help Haiti Home Gala in Beverly Hills on the eve of the <em>Golden Globes<\/em>.\u00a0 And it just happened to coincide with the night off of his ex-wife, <strong>Madonna<\/strong>.\u00a0 Madge rambled on a bit, lapsed in and out of an accent which one cannot pinpoint with GPS, and then whipped out a ukulele.\u00a0 Even though I knew what was coming, I still shuddered &#8211; much as I did during the <em>Drowned World Tour <\/em>where she showed off the three chords she learned (the cursed ukulele was later auctioned off for $300K).\u00a0 Madonna announced that she&#8217;d sing &#8220;La Vie en Rose&#8221; with &#8220;my bad Parisian pronunciations&#8221;.\u00a0 Not only am I not convinced that it was a Parisian accent, I am not sure I could identify it as French!\u00a0 But, here&#8217;s my favorite part of her introduction: &#8220;If you know the words, please sing along.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been known to forget the words occasionally &#8211; I have a lot on my mind.&#8221;\u00a0 You know who has a lot on their mind?\u00a0 The people in HAITI!\u00a0 You can check out the video on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Sean Penn is smarter than he looks &#8211; well, he&#8217;d have to be.\u00a0 He scheduled his 5th Annual Help Haiti Home Gala in Beverly Hills on the eve of the Golden Globes.\u00a0 And it just happened to coincide with the night off of his ex-wife, Madonna.\u00a0 Madge rambled on a bit, lapsed in and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}